Well this is just a diferent aproach, maybe helps you. I just invented now and doesn't know if there are such solution already, but you can try it.
There is a program called "remserial", I have used several times over linux to make a remote serial port available to a computer, this programs takes the serial port on the remote computer and send the data over TCP/IP connections to you computer, and you can use this serial port as it was one serial port of your computer. So I think that this maybe can be done as a solution to your problem, to make a little device with a serial port a network port and a little firmware to make the media convertion, and in the palm side just get the data and translate it. I'm not aware of costs but I'm just giving my 2 cents. By the way the remserial is under GPL license,and I'm not telling you to include the remserial code in your program, just talked about it in order that you had a code reference about how it's done on linux. Good luck. Eduardo Orea "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well it looks like it's official, Palm's complete lineup of currently > shipping Palms all have USB only. This is very bad news for people like > me. I have customers calling up saying they can't find a compatible Palm > because my product needs a serial port. Looks like Palm will put me out of > business unless I can find a solution. > > I have toyed around with BT some. Not a good option as it's pretty slow > compared to the wired connection. (the one byte req, one byte resp has a > lot of overhead, I'm guessing, when over BT) Cost is another issue since > my products use non-standard baud rates, I cannot use an 'off the shelf' > BT to serial converter. > > Has anyone come up with an affordable USB periferal to RS232 adapter? I > briefly looked into this a while ago and the chipsets were very expensive. > > Thanks, > Mike > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
