On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, John Schrader wrote:
> since a few weeks I am a proud owner of a handspring visor deluxe.
> Hot sync with the USB craddle works fine with Linux, but I would
> like to communicate with the device using IrDA too - both for hot
> sync and for 'serial/network communication'.
HotSync won't use IR unless you download and install some IR
extensions:
Get the irenhanc package from Palm -- this makes the IR port programmable
through the serial manager, so any app that uses serial will automatically
use IR instead (selectable in Prefs).
http://www.palm.com/support/downloads/irenhanc.html
(you probably only need two of the four files -- see the readme in BeamSync)
Then install BeamSync, which enables IR HotSyncing:
http://www.tt.rim.or.jp/~tatsushi/bsync10b2.zip
Then set up irattach /dev/ttyS0 or whatever, and then /dev/ircomm0 is good
to go.
I use this setup all the time, with pilot-xfer. The only problem I've
found is that the first time the Linux stack is installed it doesn't work
(this is with 2.2.18+). So just abort and try again; then it's fine.
Dr. Tom Holroyd
"I am, as I said, inspired by the biological phenomena in which
chemical forces are used in repetitious fashion to produce all
kinds of weird effects (one of which is the author)."
-- Richard Feynman, _There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom_
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