How To Make Fedora Support Communication Between Infrared Devices

If you wish to support communication between your infrared devices, read on.

Fedora keeps on developing to widen support for vast array of communication devices. A few of them are wireless, bluetooth, infrared and more. If you wish to make your Fedora supports communication between infrared devices like your infra-red enabled handheld mobile devices, this quick post if for you.

IrDa(TM) or Infrared Data Association

IrDA(TM) (Infrared Data Association) is an industry standard for wireless, infrared communication between devices. IrDA speeds range from 9600 bps to 4 Mbps.

IrDA can be used by many modern devices including laptops, LAN adapters, PDAs, printers, and mobile phones.  The Linux-IrDA project is a GPL'd implementation, written from scratch, of the IrDA protocols. Supported IrDA protocols include IrLAP, IrLMP, IrIAP, IrTTP, IrLPT, IrLAN, IrCOMM and IrOBEX.  The irda-utils package contains a collection of programs that enable the use of IrDA protocols. Most IrDA features are implemented in the kernel, so IrDA support must be enabled in the kernel before any IrDA tools or programs can be used. Some configuration outside the kernel is required, however, and some IrDA features, like IrOBEX, are actually implemented outside the kernel.

IrDa Installation on Fedora

To enable infrared communication device on Fedora, simply install IrDa using yum

# yum -y irda-utils

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