irda devices support

[Martin Roos]

the usb dongle itself is only recognized as the ugen device, but this
all here isn't only about my dongle ... as far as i have "grep"-ped
the source of freebsd's kernel there isn't really any mentions about
irda stack or irda device handling at all :S

`grep -r -i irda /usr/src/sys/dev` comes out pretty clean ... (except
about 5-6 comments).

imho freebsd's kernel couldn't possible really recognize any usb irda
dongle because it really wouldn't have any idea what to 'do' with the
device without an implementation of irda stack.


On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:52:45 +0200, Markus Dolze <bsdfan at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is the comms/birda port. You might have a look at it, but I
> remember that it only supports serial IR ports (those headers found on
> mainboards where you can switch the serial mode to IRDA in BIOS).
> 
> What happens if you attach your usb device? Does FreeBSD recognizes
> anything different than an "ugen"?
> 
> Regards
> Markus
> 
> Martin Roos wrote:
> 
> > is anyone working on porting irda devices into freebsd ? 
> 
> 

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Martin Roos