Infrared support

[Benjamin Close]

Not knowing the specs of your built in port you might be right.
However, I use it with the build in irda port of my Dell Inspiron 8000 
Laptop.
Although FreeBSD recognises that port as a serial port:

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

sio is the irda port of my laptop.

Cheers,
    Benjamin

Vince Hoffman wrote:

>Thanks for the advice, unfortunately this just confirms my ignorance about
>irda under freebsd ;)
>
>If I correctly understand my (second and closer) reading of the pkg-desc,
>birda only works on serial port dongles ?
>"A set of utilities to communicate with IrDA devices over an IrDA port
>on a serial line."
>
>So my built in infrared port wont work. (toshiba type-0.) Is this correct ?
>(guess i buy a dongle if so.)
>
>Thanks
>Vince
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Benjamin Close" <cisbjc at cs.unisa.edu.au>
>To: "Vince Hoffman" <vince.hoffman at uk.circle.com>
>Cc: <freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 1:36 AM
>Subject: Re: Infrared support
>
>
>  
>
>>Hi Vince,
>>    I use irda support quite frequently. Here's a section from my ppp.conf
>>should help you out a fair bit.
>>
>>ppp.conf
>># create a connection: ircomm -d /dev/cuaa1 -v 2 -y /dev/ptypv
>>TelstraMobileInternet:
>> set phone +61418707638
>> set device /dev/ttypv
>> set authname xxx
>> set authkey xxx
>> set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT \
>>           OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
>>
>>
>>Vince Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>       I actualy asked on freebsd-questions previously but got no
>>>      
>>>
>answers so i though i'd try here.
>  
>
>>>I Have a Toshiba Tecra happily running 4.8-RELEASE, (cant get 5.x running
>>>      
>>>
>but thats another issue) and i would like to use my mobile phone (nokia
>7110) as a modem, i can do this happily on win2k (i dual boot,) but would
>like to get it going for FreeBSD also.
>  
>
>>>   By googling around a bit i gather i needed to install birda, which i
>>>      
>>>
>did, but i'm now stuck as it seems rather short on documentation.
>  
>
>>>Can anyone point me in the right direction to get my laptop and phone
>>>      
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>working ?
>  
>
>>>Thanks
>>>Vince
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