IrDA

[Andy Ball]

Hello,

Does anyone happen to remember how to use IrDA on
NetBSD? I've dug out my old Tekram IrMate 210 and plugged it
into the serial port of a desktop PC that runs NetBSD/i386
6.1.5. I've got as far as adding irframe to my kernel and I
can 'irdaattach -d tekram -f tty00' (not sure whether I
should use dty00 there) and get '/dev/irframe0' back. dmesg
shows...

irframe0: SIR
irframe0 attached at tty00

Things I'd like to try, purely for experimental
purposes, are an interactive login over IrDA (I'm aware
that beaming passwords across the desk as pulses of light
is perhaps not the best idea), printing via IrDA and/or
SLIP over IrDA.

The irdaattach(8) manpage makes reference to ircomm but
I haven't found a manpage for that. What other tools,
utilities or configuration files could I look at for further
clues?

Thanks,
-Andy Ball

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[Michael van Elst]

ba...@grex.org (Andy Ball) writes:

> Does anyone happen to remember how to use IrDA on
>NetBSD?

I've used IrDA with a mobile phone to connect to the internet.

> The irdaattach(8) manpage makes reference to ircomm but
>I haven't found a manpage for that.

ircomm is in the comms/birda package which also has tools
for the obex protocol which can be used to transfer calendar
and phonebook information.


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[Andy Ball]

Hello Greg,

GDT> wow, what a flashback.
>
> See comms/birda in pkgsrc.

Thanks! I think that's the piece that I was missing.

[Andy Ball]

Hello Michael,

MvE> ircomm is in the comms/birda package which also has

> tools for the obex protocol which can be used to
> transfer calendar and phonebook information.

Thanks. I think I have the pieces now and just need to
figure out how to put them together to create an IrDA link
between two hosts. I'm thankful that we have good manpages
so I'll study those tonight and see whether I can either
add an SIR connection to /etc/ttys at one end or get SLIP
working over it tomorrow.

-Andy Ball.