Subject: Re: The new IBM IRD Ports
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/1999 14:15:22
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:57:15AM +0000, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	I believe that IRD ports, on the hardware level at least, show up as
> com ports on NetBSD.  As far as I know, there is no software on NetBSD,
> though there may be some on Linux which could be ported to NetBSD, which
> speak the IRDA protocol over the Infrared port.  The question is, do we
> want IRDA or BlueTooth as the first over-infrared protocol in NetBSD.
> Either would be nice, but my understanding is that both are a piece of
> work.  However, Two NetBSD boxes using the raw com port should be able to
> talk to each other via PPP without trouble via an Infrared port today with
> no software changes.

I doubt it -- IR "com" ports are half-duplex!