Subject: Re: irdaattach and irs: power consumers? To: Steve
Bellovin <> From: Lennart Augustsson <> List: netbsd-users Date:
01/03/2003 10:21:02 I don't really know, but I think power
consumption for the IrDA stuff is very small compared to things
like the CPU and LCD backlight.      -- Lennart  Steve Bellovin
wrote:  >After googling a bit, I found how to use irdaatach and
irs (from >pkgsrc/commds/birda) to let me hotsync my palmpilot
via my IR port. >But -- if I run those commands out of, say,
rc.local, do they consume >laptop power?  In other words, is
there any harm in letting them run? >I have no other
applications that might conflict with jpilot, so that's >not an
issue.