I bought a new Sony Clie PEG-N710C a week or so ago, to replace my aging IIIx (wasn't planning to, but it was one of those "can't walk out of Frys without it" moments -- the screen is awe-inspiring, and the whole thing is smaller than my old IIIx). At home, it hotsyncs to my Win98 laptop with the supplied USB cradle; but Sony doesn't appear to have any immediate plans to make a serial cradle or cable for this beast, and my BSD/OS box at work is unlikely to directly support USB (or IR) any time soon (and installing Linux, etc., isn't really an option, either). Now, I *can* get a serial cradle for Sony's previous model, which ought to work, but it won't match up exactly: bit of a balancing act, like syncing a III-series Palm on an old Personal/Pro-series cradle. So, I'm eyeing the various IR-to-serial adapters that are available, and I'm wondering, does anyone here know whether any of these adapters are capable of just plugging in and looking like IR to the Palm and like a serial cradle to the Unix box? Or do they all require special drivers? I don't care about being able to "take full advantage" of the IR protocols, or any such, I'd just like to be able to run a plain vanilla pilot-xfer out the serial port. If so, that'd be cool, because then it would work for syncing _any_ IR-equipped PalmOS machine (albeit at 115kbps max). If not, I'll probably just go get the older Sony serial cradle... Thanks, __/\__ Carl Jacobsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
