Subject: Re: Palm sync
From: Scott Frankel (leknarf@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 19:19:54 MDT
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 17:20, Neill Miller wrote:
Would you be able to expand on your item #1? I've tried in vain to
get the keyspan serial<>usb converter to work. A step-by-step
recipe for building support into the kernel would be terrific!
Thanks in advance -
Scott
> Hello,
> I got my Palm IIIxe working well with my Powerbook G3 2000
> (Pismo/Firewire). I'm using a Keyspan serial converter (19/19w model)
> since the Powerbook has no serial ports. I recall a couple issues that may
> or may not help.
>
> 1) For whatever reason, I did not have any luck with the Keyspan driver
> once compiled as modules. I had to build the support into the kernel and
> make sure the device registered at boot time. (It shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0
> or whatever). Maybe this should be experimented on with the serial drivers
> you're using?
>
> 2) When I created the /dev/pilot pointing to the serial device, I changed
> the permissions to my user name and the group to "tty". (type chown
> username:tty /dev/pilot as root)
>
> 3) The "pilot-xfer" tool worked well before I got JPilot to work. Try
> running pilot-xfer with the -l option when you think it's hooked up
> properly. I had to run that (although I can't recall if I ran it as root)
> before JPilot recognized it at all.
>
> So although none of that makes much rational sense, it's some voodoo magic
> that just happened to make mine work I guess. I don't recall it being very
> difficult either - so of course I may have forgotten some more subtle
> issues involved.
>
> -Neill.
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