using USB to HotSync Palm IIIc

[Jouko-Thomas Kleine]

Derrik Pates wrote:

>You're talking about the PalmConnect USB USB-to-serial device, right?
>You do know that as of 2.4.18, that is supported by the kernel? You
>won't be able to sync it with Palm Desktop on MacOS running in MoL, but
>you can sync it with any of the Linux Palm/Pilot tools available. (I've
>used mine with both x86 and PPC-based machines running 2.4.18 kernels,
>so I can tell you it does work.)
>

Didn't know, thanks! This solves half of my problem, other half 
(WordSmith) being OT for this list anyway. WordSmith has some support 
for Linux so maybe I can get them to compile a binary for PPC. - Anyone 
know a word prosessor for Palm OS that is already supported in PPC 
Linux?  Way out of topic now, I know. I'm sorry,sorry... couldn't help 
myself.


samuel@ibrium.se wrote:

>No, not at the moment. Real USB access would be nice. However,
>I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of USB so 
>I don't know how much work it would be. The main question
>is whether there is a simple way to add a MacOS driver for
>a USB controller. Last I checked I wasn't able to find
>an API for that.
>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>>This is the main problem, though I beleive it would make
>>sense to just emulate an OHCI controller. OHCI is an "intelligent"
>>chip, that is it works mostly out of data structures laid out in
>>memory by the driver and accessed directly by the chip, as far as
>>I know it, it makes a good candidate for beeing emulated. I could
>>eventually work on this though I really lack time for now.
>>

So, it could be possible.  Sadly I'm no programmer, can't help you guys 
out here. The point is MOL being such a great tool, it would be even 
greater if you could plug your peripherials to it. I guess most of the 
people are having these odd MacOS applications they just can't do 
without even though they use Linux as their main operating system. It's 
so frustrating to boot into MacOS to accomplish some trivial little task 
and then boot back to Linux again to get the real work done. Ah, but I 
understand that you cant have everything and I quit whining about it. - 
I just want to say that I (like so many others) appreciate what you have 
done here and that I'm sorry I can't show my appreciation in a more 
helpful way than by just using the program.

Thanks very much,

Jouko-Thomas Kleine.
jt.kleine@dlc.fi