IRDA and Palm

David Colebatch david-nuEF980otx7IfpyC97YFaV6hYfS7NtTn at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 19 20:47:48 UTC 2005


How did you go with this?  I'm interested, as the Treo 650 should be available 
soon here.

I'm also going to try to sync my new SonyEricsson T610 via IR if possible.

Regards,

David

On Thursday 06 January 2005 05:51, Jason Shein wrote:
> On January 6, 2005 03:11 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:07:14AM +0000, Jason Shein wrote:
> > > Anyone here managed to sync a palm unit and a laptop using IRDA?
> > >
> > > Toshiba Satellite 1900
> > > Treo 600 runing PalmOS5 ( visor )
> > >
> > > Debian unstable
> > >
> > > Packages:
> > > kpilot
> > > irda-common
> > > irda-tools
> > >
> > > irda-utils ( current replacement for irda-common & irda-tools ) will
> > > not install for some reason. the pre-install script errors out every
> > > time.
> > >
> > > irdadump sees nothing when I attempt to hotsync.
> >
> > So far I found pilot-link and jpilot to work for syncing my Tungsten E
> > (palm os 5) while kpilot couldn't even find it.  Pretty typical kde
> > application problem in my experience. :)
> >
> > This is over usb link.  None of my machines have IR unfortunately.
> >
> > Do you have an IR driver loaded?  As in a kernel module for doing IR.
> > Utilities alone isn't enough.
>
> I am using kpilot on all my machines with no effort at all. It works over
> USB on the satellite but I would prefer to be able to use the IRDA while
> mobile.
>
> I have no experience using IRDA under linux and the information I come
> across is of little assistance.
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