Hey All, I've now gotting printing working on my pismo. I gave up trying to connect the printer to my USB port, apsfilter hooked it up in 5 minutes using Samba of my windows box.
Now, to tackle IR. I have a Palm III and a serial cradle that doesn't do me squat for good with my USB-only laptop (except that it's the Palm's only recharge station). I suppose I could get the serial -> USB convertor, but why should I? I mean that's what the IR port is for, isn't it? I found a number of useful WWW pages detailing how to get Palm -> laptop IR working for linux on apple laptops, but I haven't succeeded. I've tried running jpilot and PilotManager but neither can hotsync over IR. I first tried to build IR statically into the kernel thinking it was a module issue, but this fails because of a dependancy on a module-defined variable, so I'm forced to run IR as a module. My frustration is that I have no way of testing the IR link under linux. I know it works under MacOS, hotsyncing is no problem there. But I have no other IR devices. I tried irdump but never got any output. Here's what syslog tells me: irattach /dev/irda: May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irda_setup timed out on 1st byte May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irda_setup timed out on 1st byte May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irda_init() May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irlmp_init() May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: IrDA: Registered device irda0 May 24 15:45:04 amadeus kernel: irlmp_register_client_R17f18bfb() May 24 15:45:04 amadeus kernel: irtty_net_open() May 24 15:45:04 amadeus kernel: irlap_change_speed(), setting speed to 9600 May 24 15:45:04 amadeus irattach: Starting device irda0 May 24 15:45:04 amadeus irattach: executing: 'echo amadeus > /proc/sys/net/irda/devname' May 24 15:46:45 amadeus kernel: IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli) jpilot -> sync: May 24 15:46:46 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_attach_cable() May 24 15:46:46 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_ias_register() May 24 15:46:46 amadeus kernel: irlmp_register_client_R17f18bfb() May 24 15:47:03 amadeus identd[13511]: started May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_close() May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_shutdown() May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_detach_cable() May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_close() My pilot times out eventually and jpilot just sits and spins. Any advice on how to go about debugging this would be grately appreciated. jas.
