On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:44:51AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:09:57PM -0800, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> > Am trying to use this on a VAIO laptop, getting it to talk via the third
> > serial port which is the IRDA. On Win98, if I move it nearby, it 'bongs'
> > and talks. However under BSD I have tried all baud rates etc and can't
> > get a response to an ATZ out of it.
> 
> You need the full IrDA protocol to make it work, I'm afraid.  It's not
> enough to send distinct characters over the IR link - you need to speak
> the IrDA protocol (which is not available for NetBSD).

Some SIR-capable IRDa ports can be put in a mode (using the BIOS
configuration utility) where they will do IrCOMM in hardware, making
them at least marginally useful with NetBSD. I don't know if VAIOs
will do that - I believe it is going out of fashion now that Windows
does "real" IRDa.


-- 
Soren