Accessing the Uwatec galileo

[Willem Ferguson]

Would users of the Galileo dive computers please comment on the 
following text that is intended for the user manual?

The Uwatec Galileo dive computers use infra red (IrDA) communication 
between the dive computer and Subsurface. Under Linux, the kernel 
already provides for communication using the IrDA protocol. However, the 
user additionally needs to load the drivers for the IrDA interface with 
the dive computer. The easiest way is to load the irda-tools package 
from http://irda.sourceforge.net/docs/startirda.html. After the 
installation of the irda-tools, a device name can be specified from the 
console as follows:
irattach irda0
After executing this command, Subsurface will recognise the Galileo dive 
computer and download dive information.

I need to know how Windows and Mac users achieve communications with 
Galileo using Subsurface.

Kind regards,
willemf