Re: Tekram IR-210B

[Pawel Kot]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

>       Well, direct Nokia support over Ir has always been a problem
> (I'm not talking of IrDA compliant phones), because you can't use the
> Linux-IrDA stack.

Indeed. That's why we have irda and infrared modes. But AFAIR Nokia 61X0
(the one that needs infrared mode) supports probably a subset of the IrDA
protocol. I think it has be used when printing vCards over ir connection.

>       For serial dongles, it is only a minor annoyance (you could
> always cut'n'paste dongle driver code into GNokii). But for USB
> dongles, the current GNokii solution will never work. Note also that
> new laptops are released with FIR chipset that don't offer serial
> emulation be default, and for those guys the current GNokii solution
> will never work as well. These IrDA hardware don't offer access at the
> PHY level needed by GNooki.
>       Somebody told me that there was a way around this by running
> the Nokia protocol over the IrDA stack, but this was never verified,
> so it may be urban legend. Actually, I don't know how they manage to
> do things under Win32.

So the solution is not known at the moment?

>       Now, if you guys are interested in OBEX compliant phones
> (another breed), there is already a bunch of packages that support
> them (ex ObexFTP and Multisysnc).

Yeah, that's what I want to look at a bit later -- when gnokii will be in
a bit better shape then now. Or Pavel maybe will do this as he may need
this for his Siemens ;-)

pkot
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