On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 10:33:00PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> is there any support for notebooks equipped with IR-DA in NetBSD?
> I've heared that linux provides the possibility for the infra-red adapter
> to behave either as serial, parallel or network (LAN) device), but I have
> no further information beyond that. Is there something out there ?

The IRDa on some, mostly older, machines can be used in SIR com(4)
compatibility mode, where they work like other serial lines, except
they are half-duplex.

Real IRDa, i.e. the icky "network stack" and real drivers for the
various controllers, would need significant work.

Also see http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/ .


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Soren