Hi, Using raw dongle support is quite easy in Linux, since you just have to write a small user-space application which open the serial port where your driver is connected (/dev/ttyS0 etc). With many dongles you should be able to read/write at 9600 bps, but you will probably need to write a small dongle driver in order to reset it and set it to the speed you need. With the latest 2.4.14 kernel, it's also possible to do this using USB dongles (ACTiSYS, Extended systems) if you use the ir-usb driver which has been made as a "normal" USB serial driver.
-- Dag On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:26:19 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:01:10AM -0800, Sourav Saha wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > I am quite a newbie to IrDA. I have acquired and two XTNDAccess IR PC adapter and >want to use them with my linux machines. I know bit about IrSock and IRCOMM. Can I >use the adapters using conventional method of just opening the serial port for >reading and writing (what has been decribed as RAW IR mode in some documentation) - I >am just not considering to use IRDA protocol stack as can be used with IRCOMM >emulation with 9-wire mode etc. Pls. advice whether Linux supports RAW IR. > > Yours truly, > > Sourav Saha > > India > > I don't know anything about RAW IR. People were talking of > that on the list, see the archive. I guess Dag would be the most > likely to implement that. As the driver interface is standard and > quite simple, having a serial wrapper around it would allow to export > all IrDA drivers as RAW IR in one go (instead of having to do them one > by one). > > Jean > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
