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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:56:18 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

| On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:44:58 BST, root@mauve.demon.co.uk said:
| 
| > For laptops, might console=/dev/irda work?
| 
| Hmm.... <looks around>  Do I have anything handy that will *catch* stuff being
| spewed out the irda port?  Don't think so, or I'd have built that driver....
| 
| Yes, might work, *if* you have hardware handy.

I don't see any console support in the irda drivers...
How is it supposed to work?
or do you just mean that in theory it could be made to work?

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~Randy   [MOTD:  Always include kernel version.]
"Everything is relative."
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