Hi,
I just want to make a quick poll on the list to find out if you would be
interested in getting yourself a FIR (4Mbps) IrDA PCMCIA card. This card is
a must for all of you that wants FIR support for your Linux laptop now, and
don't want to wait for somebody to write a driver for your builtin FIR port
(or if your laptop don't support FIR). The company which produces the card
wants to know if there are any interests for it in the Linux community.
Visit http://www.irdatacorp.com/ for more info
The card contains an IBM 31T1502 chipset which uses shared memory to
transfer data between the card and the laptop. This makes it much more
reliable than ISA DMA transfers which suffers badly when you have disk
activity at the same time (downloading large files from the web).
The Linux driver were in fact written half a year ago (by myself) and is
stable. This card is also very fast, and I have measured FTP speeds of over
340 Kbytes/s (IrLAN). So now you know where I got those high speeds from
;-) I'm pretty sure you will never get the same performance out of any ISA
based FIR solution (which most laptops today use). And getting drivers for
all laptops will take uncountable number of hours to impl, debug, test, etc
anyway.
This is a real chance of getting stable high performance FIR support for
your laptop today, so if you are interested, then please send me a mail
which tells if you would 1) definitively, 2) most probably or 3) maybe be
buying such a card. They need to know how many units they should prepare
for Linux users, so I'll make a list and ship it over to them in a week or
so. Remember that this is just a poll to check the interest. You don't
commit to anything!
-- Dag
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/ Dag Brattli | The Linux-IrDA Project /
// University of Tromsoe, Norway | Infrared communication for Linux //
/// http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb | http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/ ///
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