From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 20:31:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3B537B405 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 20:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xolaptop.int (xolaptop [192.168.5.9]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8I3VTU11000; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:31:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:31:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham X-X-Sender: To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Subject: Re: Handspring Visor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Just curious, but does anyone know if the handspring visor's USB cradle is > supported by FreeBSD? I'm thinking about getting one of these, and it uses > PalmOS, but I couldn't find any info on getting it to work with FreeBSD. > Well, the USB subsystem in FreeBSD will work with the Visor. You run usbd and, if you configure it properly, it will recognize your visor and run some program like Coldsync automatically. You can use Coldsync to back up the Visor or Palm to a directory on the FreeBSD box and sync with it. Coldsync allows you to use "conduits", which you can write yourself and are used to move stuff back and forth from the palm environment to unix, but there aren't many available. Most people seem to prefer a "desktop" presentation on the unix end. The best desktop for unix seems to be J-Pilot, which I was not able to get working with the USB interface. It works fine with a serial interface,so I bought a Belkin serial cable for my Visor for about $25 and it works fine with J-Pilot. That's my story.. and I'm stickin' to it.. -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message