Re: Palm <> Linux


Subject: Re: Palm <> Linux
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 14:11:20 AKST


Here's a little 101 course on using the Internet to find answers:
head to http://www.google.com/linux
seach for USB+Linux

and the first link is :
http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html

See "Specific Hardware Problems", #4.

/Dee

Mac Mason <macmasta@ak.net> wrote:
>
> Caveat: I haven't actually tried this at all, but it looked promising.
>
> In the kernel configuration, under USB support, is a section for "USB
> Serial Converter" and there are options for palms and handsprings and so
> on. I get the impression that the way this is done is just to pretend
> it's a serial device, much as ide-scsi pretends that your cd-rom is a
> scsi device.
> (But I haven't tried it)
>
> ~Mac~
>
>
> On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 13:41, Robert Swift wrote:
> >
> > Greetings all,
> > Has anyone connected one of the newer Palm PDA's (M125) with USB connector
> > to their Linux box? I found most of the included Palm packages support using
> > the serial interface :-(
> > I could go buy the serial connector but that won't further the state of the
> > art. So if anyone could recommend a package or pointers to anything promising
> > I would be grateful.
> >
> > Thanks & Happy New Year
> >
> > Bob Swift (no relation to Tom!)
> >
> >
>
>

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