[Gllug] Handspring Treo 180

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 23:42, Andrew Richardson wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 Aug 2002 12:21 pm, Adam Bower wrote:
> > Andrew Richardson wrote:
> > > PC is a laptop running RH7.3
> > > Serial connection /dev/ttyS1 linked to /dev/pilot  with 666 permissions
> >
> > Doesn't it use a USB connection? (if you have a serial cable the please
> > ignore me) If so you will need USB support for the handspring built into
> > the kernel and things, there are HOW-TOs google will find them and if
> > this is the case it will be a different device node something like
> > /dev/usb/tts0 or something rather than /dev/ttyS1... (hazy memory)
> >
> > Adam
> 
> I have both the USB and serial cables.  USB works under 'doze (although 
> hotsync crashes frequently) but I figured the serial connection under Linux 
> would be the easier option.

USB's pretty simple these days. Compile the appropriate option into your
kernel, get pilot-link 0.11.3, get a recent jpilot, and it pretty much
just works.

>  Unfortunately my PCMCIA modem uses the same IRQ3 
> that the serial port wants so I have a problem.   If you know of any 
> Linux-USB-Palm web links, I would be very grateful.  Otherwise I shall do as 
> you advise and head back to Google.

http://www.pilot-link.org

Mike.


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