[ale] IrDA on desktops

[rstickel at mindspring.com (Robert Stickel)]

I have not seen any consumer products that plug into a mobo, but HP has
an IrDA Designer's Kit (P/N HSDL-8001) that includes two IR serial
dongles (Parallax LiteLink), two 1-inch square circuit boards and some
documentation.  The boards have an IR transceiver and a 10-pin header
labeled:

  Bout    --

  Rcv     Txd

  Gnd     Gnd

  Sout    Rxd

  Vcc2    Vcc1

The docs explain these connections.  If you can't plug one of these into
your MB, you might still be able to use a LiteLink on a serial port. 
The kernel IrDA package includes a LiteLink driver.


Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> I've been reading through some of the IrDA howtos and they all talk about
> notebooks.  My desktop MB has an IrDA header on it.
> 
> Is there anything out there one can buy to give it IrDA capabilities?
> Searches on the web seem to come up with a bunch of nothing, dead links,
> etc...

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