On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jasper Wallace wrote:

>On Fri, 5 May 2000 Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jasper Wallace wrote:
>> 
>> > I have the very basic beginngings of a userland irda stack i wrote mainly
>> > for the fun of playing around with it. I havn't worked on it for 6 weeks,
>> > but intend to start again soonish.
>> 
>> Do you intend to make the code public?
>
>when there is enough of it to actually show people...
>
>> Do you know of other projects?
>
>There are things in the net and freebsd project databases, but i havn't seen
>any code (i havn't looked for 3 months or so).
>
>> Isn't somebody working on porting the Linux IrDA stuff to *BSD?

Yes, I've started looking at it, although it will be a while before I can
spare much time.

>I don't know, but emulateing the linux socket(AF_IRDA,,) stuff is the best
>longterm goal.

Yes, so all the Linux userland apps should Just Work.  Plus IrCOM_TTY
(so that PPP to a mobile phone will work as well) and IrCOM_LPT (so that
lpd can print to an IrDA printer).


Roger

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