Re: Gnokii with infrared on FreeBSD 4.8

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Pawel Kot wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:
>
>
> > Can anyone give me an explanation of the following?
> > "Couldn't open PHONET device:
>
>
> This is an error message from gnokii: the device_open() function did not
> succeed.
>
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> > Bad file descriptor"
>
>
> And this it an error message from the operating system. Not seeing your
> full debug output I can't say where the exact reason is but I belive it is
> fd = socket(AF_IRDA, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> which returns -1.
>
> pkot

FreeBSD doesn't implement AF_IRDA and basically any of the IrDA stack. 
The birda port provides some binary utilities, but no API's for gnokii 
to use (header files & libraries). So, my suggestion to Tiarnan would be 
to read through the birda programs, extract the relevant code and modify 
gnokii to interface to it. Since I have never used birda, I can't be of 
any more help though.
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Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece