Got modem to connect with palm using a 25 to 9 pin male to male adapter,
attached to a null modem
adapter, attached to the hot sync cable.
Both the adapters are avaliable from Radio Shack / Office max and cost
around $6 each.
Regards
Shahed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 6:22 AM
Subject: RE: Serial Port Comm w/Modem
>> Would this be required for an external modem too ?
>
>Yes, Palm with hot-sync cable looks to PC like a modem so you need to swap
>RD/TD to talk to another modem. There is, or used to be, a special Palm
>modem cable.
>
>Regards, Nick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shahed Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, 10 December 1999 11:40
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Serial Port Comm w/Modem
>
>
>Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I was trying to connect my Palm 3 to
>an external modem. However, I could not dial out.
>
>I have successfully connected the palm to a PC running a terminal emulator,
>and a serialecho program on the palm, so I know that serial port i/o from
>palm to pc is working.
>
>What I want to know is do I have to change the cable wiring (pin
>assignments)
>for the serial port cable in order for this to work ?
>Later I intend to connect the palm to a smart card reader, so I wanted to
>test with a modem first.
>
>The person who has written the scez library for the palm suggested the
>following pin assignments for a Palm 2 Smartcard i/f.
>
> Palm side Reader side For readers
> 9pin, male 9pin, male
>
> 2 (RD) <-> 3 (RD) All
> 3 (TD) <-> 2 (TD) All
> 5 (SG) <-> 5 (SG) All
> 6 (DSR) <-> 4 (DTR) All
> 7 (RTS) <-> 6 (DSR) Dumb Mouse, to PIN 1 (DCD) for UniProg
> 8 (CTS) <-> 7 (RTS) All
>
>Would this be required for an external modem too ?
>
>Thanks
>Shahed.
>
>
>
