Palm Hotsync and usbserial: New Findings

[James Liggett]

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).

Can you send me the patches so I can try them? I tried to use my Dad's
*real* usb to serial converter that he uses to sync his IIIc to his
USB-only laptop, but it doesn't seem to be supported in linux (It uses
some weird chipset, like ATEN or something like that--ever heard of it?)

>   The
> problem you suspect is likely more usb related.
> 
> Bye
> 

Thanks,
James