On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Jan Marius Evang wrote: > I have an "embedded computer" which has no keyboard/mouse input, but it > does have > both "consumer IR" and IrDA.
IIRC there is no support for consumer IR in current linux kernels. IrDA should work, provided the device uses a standard UART emulation for SIR mode or comes with a supported FIR chipset. > Does there exist a keyboard I can use with Linux? With kernel modifications? IMHO this would need some kernel modification. Is there some specification for the protocol of such a keyboard? If the keyboard follows IrDA physical layer specification it might be possible with the specs of the keyboard. The most natural way IMHO would be to interface the particular irda device driver's raw bytestream to the input interface (like USB does). Personally I don't have knowledge of any such solution - but sounds interesting. > Or even only from a userspace program? Well, if the keyboard would come with some irda stack capabilities (in addition to just using irda physical layer), it should be possible to have a program living entirely in userspace which interacts with the keyboard using more or less generic irda sockets. Feeding the corresponding keyboard events back into the normal keyboard processing queue (so you can simply type into a shell without changing it and all your applications just to make use of irda-sockets instead of a tty) would be an interesting exercise ;-) I'd prefer to make use of the in-kernel input device interface. Martin _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
