I would be in category 1 if the price was right, 2 if it was a little steep
;-). And thank you for that special patch, I am in the process of patching
and compiling now.
Regards,
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: Dag Brattli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 2:45 AM
Subject: [Linux-IrDA]Interested in FIR (4Mbps) support for your laptop?
> Hi,
>
> I just want to make a quick poll on the list to find out if you would be
> interested in getting yourself a FIR (4Mbps) IrDA PCMCIA card. This card
is
> a must for all of you that wants FIR support for your Linux laptop now,
and
> don't want to wait for somebody to write a driver for your builtin FIR
port
> (or if your laptop don't support FIR). The company which produces the card
> wants to know if there are any interests for it in the Linux community.
>
> Visit http://www.irdatacorp.com/ for more info
>
> The card contains an IBM 31T1502 chipset which uses shared memory to
> transfer data between the card and the laptop. This makes it much more
> reliable than ISA DMA transfers which suffers badly when you have disk
> activity at the same time (downloading large files from the web).
>
> The Linux driver were in fact written half a year ago (by myself) and is
> stable. This card is also very fast, and I have measured FTP speeds of
over
> 340 Kbytes/s (IrLAN). So now you know where I got those high speeds from
> ;-) I'm pretty sure you will never get the same performance out of any ISA
> based FIR solution (which most laptops today use). And getting drivers for
> all laptops will take uncountable number of hours to impl, debug, test,
etc
> anyway.
>
> This is a real chance of getting stable high performance FIR support for
> your laptop today, so if you are interested, then please send me a mail
> which tells if you would 1) definitively, 2) most probably or 3) maybe be
> buying such a card. They need to know how many units they should prepare
> for Linux users, so I'll make a list and ship it over to them in a week or
> so. Remember that this is just a poll to check the interest. You don't
> commit to anything!
>
> -- Dag
>
> --
> / Dag Brattli | The Linux-IrDA Project
/
> // University of Tromsoe, Norway | Infrared communication for Linux
//
> /// http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb | http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/
///
>
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