Hi, Tekram and Extended Systems have both made IrDA docking stations which can interface both PS/2 mice and keyboards using IrDA. The problem is that both products have been discontinued.
http://www.tekram.com/Hot_Products.asp?Product=IR-660 I impl. support for the Tekram device a few years ago, and it's actually really cool. If it's still working, then you can borrow it from me. I'll send it with Haakon if his plane manages to land up here, since it's snowing very heavily today ;-) -- Dag -- Dag Brattli, Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO, ObexCode AS Web: http://www.obexcode.com Tromsoe Science Park Phone: +47 776 33 690 Forskningsparken Fax: +47 776 79 750 NO-9291 Tromsoe, NORWAY Cell: +47 481 06 352 On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:19:30 +0100 (CET), Martin Diehl wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
