Palm Hotsync and usbserial: New Findings

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "James" == James Liggett <jrliggett at cox.net> writes:

    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).

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

If the chip is not supported in the linux kernel, no chance to access it
with wine. Does lsusb know about the chip (VID/PID)?
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