Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-19 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:42:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > > I have also finished porting the findchip utility. You can find it > > attached. It works fine(*) on my -stable machine, but I would like > > someone to try it out on a -curr

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-19 Thread Ronald.vanderPol
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > I have also finished porting the findchip utility. You can find it > attached. It works fine(*) on my -stable machine, but I would like > someone to try it out on a -current box, just to be sure. It runs on current: Found SMC FDC37N958FR Control

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-15 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:00:49AM +0200, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > I have also finished porting the findchip utility. You can find it > attached. It works fine(*) on my -stable machine, but I would like Yeah right, like it would have been attached without me doing the work... Sorry for that

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-15 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:00:51PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > you need to enable the FIR mode from the BIOS to get the PNP ID > for the fast part of the chip.. 510 is just a UART attached to the IR port > which is the SIR (slow IR :-) interface. Duh! Who would have thought that "IrDA" in t

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > The findchip thing would be nice.. > > Will do then. > > > one way is to simply boot with -v and look at the PNP IDs that the BIOS > > returns. > > (what I did) > > Actually I have done that, to

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Benno Rice
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [snip] > there's a few of us working on IrDA > > yes we CAN use the ng_tty node for the low speed SIR > implimentation.(And we plan on doing so for systems that > only have the tty interface. Most laptops these days have > a mor

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > The findchip thing would be nice.. Will do then. > one way is to simply boot with -v and look at the PNP IDs that the BIOS > returns. > (what I did) Actually I have done that, too. From the many PnP devices that the system re

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Panagiotis Astithas writes: : implement the lower protocol layer on top of ng_tty, essentially : doing something like IrDA-over-serial? If that was possible I : guess we don't have to implement any drivers at all, and we : could concentrate on the higher layers of th

Re: IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I am one of those who would like to see IrDA support in FreeBSD, > and for that matter I am prepared to offer some work. I have > downloaded the relative specifications and I have been looking > at the Linux-IrDA stuff. I am about to embark on an effo

IrDA and FreeBSD

2001-02-14 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
Hi folks, I am one of those who would like to see IrDA support in FreeBSD, and for that matter I am prepared to offer some work. I have downloaded the relative specifications and I have been looking at the Linux-IrDA stuff. I am about to embark on an effort to port the irda-utils-0.9.13 from lin