Ryan Shillington wrote some tools to control the COREL Netwinder via
infrared, for example:
Server Side for the Corel Palm Administrator (deamon). It depends on
having ir-simple installed and up and running. With this you can check
and change IP addresses, Gateway addresses, setup eth1, etc. You can
also run simple commands AND you can check the Temperature, Memory,
Load averages, etc.
Client Side for the Corel Palm Administrator. You can also run simple
commands AND you can check the Temperature, Memory, Load averages,
etc.
A very basic infrared device driver. This does not support IrDA (only
unreliable transfers). It looks specifically for Remote Control
signals (and Keyboard, etc.). It blocks and passes data up very
differently.
You may find the tools at http://www.netwinder.org/~ryansh/