so my parents gave me a palmpilot III for my birthday (which was nice). However, I can't get it to work with my thinkpad.
here's what I have debian 1.3.1 pilot-link 8.9 & a palmpilot III here's what I did compiled pilot-link 8.9, no real problems installed pilot-link stuff, no real problems tried to get it to communicate with my palmpilot via pilot-xfer /dev/ttyS0 -l with no luck, palmpilot can't find my computer. But this is not a surprise really because gpm is using /dev/ttyS0. so I mv'd the gpm script in /etc/init.d/ to gpm.bak and ran update-rc.d gpm remove and rebooted. 0setserial configured /dev/ttyS0 to the following uart 16550A port 0x03f8 irq 4 which is what the thinkpad documentation says is one of the possible resource defaults for the serial port. still no go _and_ my xserver starts going weird (race conditions or something causing it to die) and my pcmcia cardmanager fails to correctly set up the serial connection for my modem card. so bag that and reinstall gpm and everything is okay. I don't know why my system seems dependent on gpm; I've never used it (and I thought that I read in this list that it wasn't really necessary). so I tried using /dev/ttyS1 but my modem is using that one out, so I pop my modem out and thought that would release the serial connection, but no pilot-xfer says it can't make a connection to port ttyS1. specifically it says unable to bind to port '/dev/ttyS1' so I tried doing setserial setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A irq 4 port 0x03e8 setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A irq 3 port 0x02e8 but setserial won't actually set the serial connections (yes, I ran the command as root). so why is that and where do I go from here? And in either case, same response from pilot-xfer. so the specks for the serial port in the back of the thinkpad are irq 4 port 0x03f8 3 0x02f8 4 0x03e8 3 0x02e8 the standard com 1-4 stuff. I'd really like to use this pda with linux so any help would be greatly appreciated. And if it will make anyone smile, I couldn't get the damn thing to work with NT either-- consistent, supported platform, my ass. - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]