Infrared

[Phil Bull]

Hi Vadim,

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:12 -0400, Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> 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. 

I don't think that this is a common enough use case to warrant writing
new system documentation. However, the document on the wiki could
definitely be made more visible. I'll try to make some changes to it
tomorrow.

Thanks,

Phil

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