Re: Talking to a Palm over USB (was Re: Talking to a Palm over IR?)

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 15:34, Lars Eggert wrote:
> 
>>>>Or is IRDA support required, even though it looks like a serial port? 
>>>>(Sorry, I'm clueless when it comes to IR.) In that case, I think NetBSD 
>>>>just got some basic support for it.
>>>
>>>IIRC, Palm OS 2.x and earlier had a proprietary protocol for the IR
>>>transfers, but that they now use IrDA.
>>
>>So I gave up on IrDA, and instead am now trying to sync via the USB 
> 
> 
> The m5xx should work fine with the comms/birda port.

Well, I could never get it to work, the laptop and Palm never connected. 
Do you have config files for your setup?

> The warning can be ignored, if the rest works (coldsync currently only
> recognizes Handspring's vendor code).  If the sync doesn't work after
> that, though, then Palm decided to be gratuitously different.  :/

It doesn't. I added Palm's vendor code and the warning goes away, but 
still no connection.

Lars
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