Infrared

[Vadim Peretokin]

Thank you Matthew, I suspect that's just what I was looking for. Is it
possible to have that article 'tagged' with infrared also? Irda really
didn't come to my mind.

I've just got to the part where I need to reboot (I need to check if my
infrared is enabled in BIOS), but I'll hold off a bit on that right now, as
I've just modified my grub earlier to that, and am awaiting confirmation
that I did it right before I reboot.

Phil : IR is still a possible way to connect with PDA's. While most come
with a dock/usb cable, if you lose one of those/don't get one, IR is the
only way. But the real reason today was, well, a really boring 3 hour class.
I didn't get a wireless card yet, and wanted to share some info from my
laptop to a friends, so IR was pretty much the only way. So yep, the PC to
PC thing.

Thank you for your replies.

On 9/5/07, Matthew Voss <matthew.lns1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try searching "irda". I found somthing that may help you:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IrdaHowto .
> Goo
>
> On 9/5/07, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just signed up for the list, so I believe this is the right place to
> > address the issue, but if no, sorry then, ignore this email.
> >
> > Today I've remembered that I've got an infrared port on my ThinkPad T40.
> > I don't know how to use it, but first thing first, I went to Hardware
> > information, just to make sure that Ubuntu knows that I've got one. It did,
> > excellent. So then I pressed the F1 button, searched for "infrared", and
> > got... "zarrooo" results. Oh well. Off we go to help.ubuntu.com.
> > Searched for infrared again, nada. That's weird. Went to the Ubuntu docs
> > project on launchpad, and still nothing on infrared.
> >
> > =(.
> >
> > Searching on Launchpad itself for infrared led me to LIRC (Linux
> > Infrared Remote Control), setting up which doesn't look too easy, but that's
> > another point altogether.
> >
> > I tried then add/remove at least, found IRKick, which it labels itself
> > as a front-end for LIRC... I've installed that, but it looks like it wants
> > lirc up first.
> >
> > Anyway, that's a bit off topic, but my main point is - is it possible to
> > create some kind of article in built-in help that gives indication to a
> > user that infrared is usable in ubuntu?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
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