[ltp] Thinkpad and the pilot

[Tod Harter]

David J Patrick wrote:

> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
>> I think it should be /dev/ttyS0 (with a capital 'S').
>>  
>>
> It seems you are correct.
> Now I mus do battle with gpilotd, inorder to get a clean sync with 
> jpilot.


Ugh. coldsync rules, and you can write conduits in perl ;o).

>
>>> how 'bout the IR ?
>>>
>> I've had success hotsyncing my Tungsten T over IrDA to my T23.  Here's
>> what I had to do:
>>
>>  1. flash the BIOS to a newer version, because otherwise I couldn't
>>     perform step 2
>>  
>>
> bios upgrades from IBM ?
>
>>  2. enable IrDA in the BIOS
>>  3. add the following to /etc/modules.conf (actually, since I use
>>     Debian, I had to add that to /etc/modutils/local and run
>>     update-modules):
>>  
>>
>
>>       alias irda0 nsc-ircc
>>       options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 io=0x2f8 irq=3
>>       pre-install nsc-ircc setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none port 0 irq 0
>>  
>>
> I was running debian, but have "backslid" to Mandrake10
>
>>  4. run "irattach irda0" on boot (on Debian you apt-get install
>>     irda-tools and edit /etc/irda.conf)
>>
>> If you echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery, and place your palm next
>> to the IrDA port, after a few minutes the palm should be discovered and
>> listed in the same proc file.
>>
>> Then you can use pilot-xfer -p /dev/ircomm0 to hotsync.
>>  
>>
> that sound good, what about another profile for jpilot ?
>
>> Marius Gedminas
>>  
>>
> thanks Marius,
> djp
>