Palm Hotsync and usbserial: New Findings

[James Liggett]

Yes it does. And I found a driver, so it works now. I guess I spoke a
little too soon...sorry about that.

James

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 09:33 +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> >>>>> "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)?