Palm sync with linux

[Michael Costolo]

--- Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all - first of all, thanks for the many pieces of info and
> suggestions wrt picking up a PDA.  I ended up getting a Palm m125 and am
> pretty happy with it so far.  
> 
> I'm anxious to learn to be able to back it up onto my system which is
> Linux only.  All the software I've seen seems to think that Palms only
> sync via serial cable, yet the cradle I got with mine is USB.  Is there
> a way to do the syncing via USB?  Or do I need to find a USB to serial
> adapter?  
> 
> Even a pointer to an appropriate web site would be a big help.  Thanks
> in advance!
> 

You shouldn't need any special serial adaptor, the USB cradle should work just fine.
 I use the Handspring Visor (which runs the Palm OS) with its USB cradle and J-Pilot
software (http://jpilot.org) with Linux without any problems.  It has been some time
since I set it up, but making sure the 'visor' and 'usb-uhci' modules were loaded
(modprobe visor, modprobe usb-uhci) was the key to getting the USB sync to work. 
You have to get the timing right - meaning you first press the sync button on the
cradle then press the sync button on the software - but once you've got that down
you should have no problems.

Hope this helps...

-Mike-

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