Subject: IR Confusion
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/2002 05:38:03
Hello!

I'm a little confused about IrDA support under NetBSD.  I
don't see it mentioned in http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/
but on my laptop dmesg|grep com1 reports...

com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo

 ...where com1 is (according to the machine's setup program)
routed to the IR port.  The above looks just like a normal
serial port.  Is it possible under NetBSD to use this to
communicate with anything?

Regards,
  - Andy Ball.