> From: John Dammeyer <johnd@ISLANDNET.COM>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: IrDA on PIC
> Date: Thursday, 3 April 1997 09:12
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone done an IrDA port onto a 16C74 device.  Granted IrDA goes to
> 115Kbaud but the Microsoft MSDN-II literature states that when an IrDA
> device is placed with range of a WIN-95 system with installed IrDA
software
> the two devices negotiate a speed.
>
> Communication between the devices can be as simple as a hard wired serial
> link which means after communication is established, what the data looks
> like is application dependent.  In fact under WIN-95 application
programming
> the IrDA is opened as a pseudo COM port so standard comm software
techniques
> will work.  Question is:  What about the PIC side and the negotiation for
speed?
>
Where  did you find the info on how to get the PC motherboard to work with
it?  My *bios* has support, but I can find no data on h/w support for it.

MikeS