Infrared link for FreeBSD?

Luyt luyt at ovosoft.nl
Wed Feb 9 05:24:46 PST 2005


On Tuesday 08 February 2005 22:42, John wrote:

> Does FreeBSD support the infrared link found in many laptops?  I have
> searched the handbook and release notes, and haven't found any
> mention of it (at least the way I was searching), so I thought
> I'd give it one last try here.

You might want to have a look at:

The 'birda' port - "A set of utilities to communicate with IrDA devices over 
an IrDA port on a serial line."

   http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/ports.php?c=comms&n=birda


"Using infrared to connect a Palm to FreeBSD"

   http://www.jeroen.se/articles/freebsd_palm_infrared.php



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