Re: Gnokii with infrared on FreeBSD 4.8

[Pawel Kot]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Simon Huggins wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:24:41AM -0700, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:
> > I've activated the IR port in the BIOS, and set it to SIR mode.
> > It seems to be recognized at boot time:
> > # dmesg | grep sio
> > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> > sio0: type 16550A
> > sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> > sio1: type 16550A
>
> > It shows up as /dev/cuaa1. I can use birda (NetBSD IrDA tools) to
> > establish an irda connection, and to send business cards to and from
> > the phone, so FreeBSD IrDA is definitely able to connect to the phone.
>
> SIR makes it appear as a serial port.  So I *think* you want
> connection = serial
> if you are trying to get it to work like that but I don't have any
> experience with IrDA on *BSD.

I don't think so, as the phone uses sligtly different frames when
communicating over IrDA then over the serial port.

IrDA support was implemented with Linux in mind. I'm afraid I can't help
much with this. Is there any BSD IrDA implementatin docs?

pkot
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