[wellylug] HotSyncing USB Palms

[Colin & Josephine Lewis]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:54 am, Robin Hinde wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion Robin.  I tried this but still no luck.  I guess I 
should either try upgrading to Mdk 9.2 or wait for a stable version of v10 to 
come out.  In the meantime I noe have syncing ability through work so all is 
not lost completely.

As an alternative I tried geting a serial based infrared unit to work, but 
sofar without any success either.  Has anybody had any experience with 
getting one of these to run under Linux?  I bought it from DSE.  It says it 
meets IrDA 1.0  physical specifications.

Colin

> This is actually for Colin, but other members might find this useful.
>
> Quite some time was spent trying to get an Acer s60 talking to Linux at the
> Hutt meeting last Thursday. The problem was finding what the Palm device
> actually appears on the system as. That's hard without any documentation.
>
> Turns out that the answer (on my system, Mandrake 10) is: /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> If you point K or J Pilot to that device, HotSyncing works fine. You have
> to press the cradle HotSync button before clicking the Sync button in the
> software, as /dev/ttyUSB1 doesn't exist until the cradle button is pressed.
>
> I suppose the correct way is to create a link /dev/pilot that points to
> /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO/pc-connect.html has some quite
> relevant information.
>
> HTH
>
>   -=rjh=-