Palm Hotsync and usbserial: New Findings
James Liggett
jrliggett at cox.net
Thu Jul 7 15:17:05 CDT 2005
I'm not using a "real" adapter. I'm using the visor driver that is used
to sync a USB palm with things like pilot-link. This driver emulates a
serial port in much the same way that a real one does, or so I think. I
was just pointing out that people have similar behavior with real
adapters, so I thought it might be relevant. The visor driver calls
itself a "serial converter", and it does add USB entries in my /dev/tts
folder like a real adapter would. But, my palm cradle is plugged into an
acutal USB port. I do have access to a real USB to serial adapter
though; I'll play around with it. And another thing--I'm also looking
into that WinMM crash that keeps Palm Desktop from running. The problem
is that the function DRIVER_FindFromHDrvr is failing, returning a NULL
value, which wine tries to derefrence in MMDRV_Install, and boom--wine
crashes.
James
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:51 +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Liggett <jrliggett at cox.net> writes:
>
> James> Hello all, I have been working on getting Hotsync to sync to a
> James> USB cradle using usbserial. I did some research, and as it turns
> James> out, the functions that wine uses to poll normal serial ports
> James> (like ioctl and tcgetattr) don't like usbserial devices very
> James> much. In fact, when I query my USB cradle using setserial, it
> James> gives me the same "Invalid Arguement" error that GetCommState
> James> does. Additionally, pilot-link doesn't even use these functions
> James> to communicate with a usbserial connected palm. The question now
> James> is, can we get tcgetattr to play nice with usbserial?
>
> What USB to serial adapter is used? The usbserial Atmel AVRIce uses a FTDI
> FT232 which is well supported. It works quite well, with the serial
> related patches I sent to the list( but some of them not yet in CVS). The
> problem you suspect is likely more usb related.
>
> Bye
>
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