Registered: Aug 1999
Location: Inverness, FL
Posts: 428

If anyone has any info on possible synching with Linux either over USB or Serial let us now.

Marcus

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Germany
Posts: 9

I don�t have any idea how to use USB with Linux (because none of my computers features a USB port) but if you use the serial docking station it should be possible to sync with Linux and do even worse things (PPP connection etc.ppp =B). This is as to the people at Handspring support I interviewed about the Visor today. The Visor has PalmOS - so it has network connectivity. The docking port is capable of both normal serial mode (read this somewhere - don�t ask me where) and USB mode. So it /should/ be no problem. I�ll try it anyway.

Matthias

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posts: 2

To the extent that the Visor's Ir and serial crdale work like a Plam III, it should be supported as much as a Palm III:

The PalmOS-HOWTO http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO.html

PalmOS integration with KDE and Gnome is progressing (slowly, in the case of Gnome)

The Linux-IrDA project reports successful IrDA communication between Palm IIIs and Linux (http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/IR-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.4)

Newer Linux kernels partially support USB: http://www.linux-usb.org/
But I have no idea if support is developed enough to talk to the Visor, or if the pilot-link developers plan to port pilot-link to USB.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Mableton, GA, USA
Posts: 7

USB + Linux
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I have linux and a Palm IIIx and I can tell you that when my Visor Deluxe gets here, the FIRST thing I�m doing is some experimentation with getting my linux machines and the Visor to chat with each other. Handspring doesn�t indicate that they will be bothering with linux too much; their GNU tools for development are around simply because of the Palm freaks out there.

If I had to guess about it, Handspring has too much to deal with to be bothering with linux right now. I don�t blame them. Traditionally, linux volunteers have been able to get by with sparse information from the manufacturer and produced quality software as a result. This is just another instance. Frankly, I�m excited about toying with it because usually people develop things for linux long before I get around to being able to experiment myself. Not this time!

Let�s all pray for an early ship date�.