Palm Hotsync and usbserial: New Findings

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Thu Jul 7 10:38:23 CDT 2005


> I did some research, and as it turns out, the functions that
> wine uses to poll normal serial ports (like ioctl and tcgetattr) don't
> like usbserial devices very much. In fact, when I query my USB cradle
> using setserial, it gives me the same "Invalid Arguement" error that
> GetCommState does. Additionally, pilot-link doesn't even use these
> functions to communicate with a usbserial connected palm. The question
> now is, can we get tcgetattr to play nice with usbserial?

What kernel is that?

Cheers, Kuba



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