What's the state of Palm<->Linux these days?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 2:55 pm, Kent Borg wrote:
> I have two Palm Pilots these days, both are happy to IR sync to my old
> Sony notebook and jpilot, but I haven't figured how to make them work
> with my new notebook.  (New notebook has no IR, a Sigmatel IR dongle
> is recognized as an IRDA device, but I can't figure out how to turn it
> into a suitable character device for jpilot to talk to.)
>
> Why do I have two Palms?  One is also my phone, but it makes
> mysterious 10-second data calls on its own; I don't trust it.  The
> second is a cheap Zire 31 that I keep mostly incommunicado so I can
> trust it to keep all my passwords--encrypted with Gnu Keyring.  I can
> backup it with an SD card.
With the 2.6 kernel, you will be using udev, and you will possibly need to 
update the udev tables in /etc/udev. 
I posted the entries for USB a while back. 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php   <--- This is excellent.

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