Re: Thinkpad IR ppp and Fedora 3

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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:07:30 +0200

I want to see if I can stream video over such a link.
Ciscos MPEG4IP mp4live on one machine and DSS on the other.

IR is obsolete for such tasks maybe, there is WIFI today, but I want to
see it.

H.

> Hi, since I saw it between two thinkpads on Win2K, I want it on Linux
> and FreeBSD too. On Win2k, all you have to configure is direct
> connection with the IR port and if one machines IR sees the other
> machines IR you can send files to the other, it is rather fast, really
> usable. IMHO faster than PLIP
>
> dmesg on FreeBSD shows the IR chip, but I havent seen anything like that
> in the Fedora dmesg.
>
> Saw some howtos in the net, they are probably outdated, no idea which
> modules are needed etc. Surprised that Thinkpadsa are not better
> supported by Redhat.
>
> I can do modrobe irnet, but something seems to be missing. What I expect
> is to do ifconfig and to see an interface like eth0, that is usable as
> usual, maybe like plip0 (as it is called on FreeBSD), like
>
> ifconfig plip0 <myip> <yourip>
>
> and
>
> ifconfig plip0 <yourip> <myip>
>
> on the other machine.
>
>
> As you can see, I have understood nothing....
>
> Thanks, H.

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