Does anyone know if IRDA (for networking) is still supported by Linux?
I need to build a gateway from IrDA to ethernet to make legacy palmos devices talk to the internet.
I vaguely remember IrDA having different protocols, and palmOS not supporting all of them. Maybe they did serial to ppp, like a dial-up modem?
And there were devices that were palm compatible, like this one...
Sadly these are long gone and not available even used.
So, I don't know where to start. Would Fedora Linux and the cheap USB-IrDA adapters work?
If this list is not the right place, is there a forum with palmOS savvy people where I should ask? Thanks in advance for any pointers...
FC
On 11/07/2021 10:39, Fernando Cassia wrote:
Does anyone know if IRDA (for networking) is still supported by Linux?
I need to build a gateway from IrDA to ethernet to make legacy palmos devices talk to the internet.
I vaguely remember IrDA having different protocols, and palmOS not supporting all of them. Maybe they did serial to ppp, like a dial-up modem?
And there were devices that were palm compatible, like this one...
https://amzn.to/3wAAc0C https://amzn.to/3wAAc0C
Sadly these are long gone and not available even used.
So, I don't know where to start. Would Fedora Linux and the cheap USB-IrDA adapters work?
If this list is not the right place, is there a forum with palmOS savvy people where I should ask? Thanks in advance for any pointers...
FC
I can't specifically answer your question other than to say there is a....
irda-utils.x86_64 : Utilities for infrared communication between devices
package which may be worth exploring.
On Sun., 11 Jul. 2021, 00:32 Ed Greshko, ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
I can't specifically answer your question other than to say there is a....
irda-utils.x86_64 : Utilities for infrared communication between devices
package which may be worth exploring.
Thanks Ed!
That helps. I also found an interest g ancient research paper at the hp.com web site that confirms my assumptions and what I read many years ago... There were different protocols... I now have to find which one palms used.
I do know it wasn't IRLAN because at one pint in tine I bought a IRDA access point from HP and it didn't work at all. It worked for PCs but not Palm PDAs. I do remember that bit...
Here is the excerpt (I'm pasting it in the interest of someone in the future hitting this thread):
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There are three different ways to carry TCP/IP over IrDA.
The most common is PPP over IrCOMM. This is the method used to communicate with data-enabled mobile phones (those which support IrDA).
IrCOMM is the IrDA stack's simple serial emulation layer, so it's quite straightforward to setup PPP over this pseudo serial port. Unfortunately, this introduces inefficiency due to PPP framing and serial emulation.
The second option is to use IrLAN, which is the official IrDA standard for transporting TCP/IP over IrDA, and is implemented in IrDA LAN Access Points. IrLAN is basically an Ethernet emulation over an IrDA socket.
The third option is to use IrNET, which is used by Windows 2000 to connect two PCs together (Direct Cable Connection over IrDA). IrNET is synchronous PPP over an IrDA socket, using only the protocol part of PPP and removing both the serial emulation and the PPP framing for greater performance. ///
Now off to Google for some ancient PalmPilot and Linux FAQ...
FC