Hi,
You can find the spec at:
http://www.usb.org/developers/data/devclass/usbir10.pdf
The bad thing is that some IrDA-USB dongles were designed before the
standard and may not be compliant.
I have a dongle, but I'm not sure when I will have time to build a driver
for it.
-- Dag
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:17:13 -0300 (EST), you wrote:
>
> Couldn't it ube like a serial usb adapter, which then uses irda over this
> serial?
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> >
> > On 10-Aug-00 Alvin Loh wrote:
> > > Does anyone knows how to get a USB-IrDA dongle to work? I have a USB-IrDA
> > > dongle called ESI-9685 from Extended Systems. It works under Win98 and
> > > Win2000. But I want to get it to work over Linux, any ideas?
> >
> > I think you would need to get a spec sheet :)
> >
> > Or a USB protocol analyser and see what it does..
> >
> > Conceivably it would be quite simple though.. (Hopefully :)
> >
> > ---
> > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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