Palm Pilot/Visor and Linux questions

Gerald A Feldman gaf at world.std.com
Thu Jul 5 09:34:51 EDT 2001


Thanks Mark,
My daughter may not be using her Visor, and I can get one from her or
Borrow David's. But that's the info I was looking for. 

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> Pilot-link, yes.  You'll want to have USB serial and visor compiled into
> the kernel, or as modules.  The port will be something like
> /dev/ttyUSB1, but the port won't be available until about 1 second *after*
> you hit the hot-sync button.  So, hit hot sync button, wait, then start
> pilot-link.  You can get a bit more info at www.linux-usb.org

> I went from a Palm III to Visor, and was able to back up my palm using pilot-link,
> attach the Visor through its cradle, then do a restore.  Worked fine.

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