[ltp] Thinkpad and the pilot

[David J Patrick]

Marius Gedminas wrote:

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

>> how 'bout the IR ?
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>I've had success hotsyncing my Tungsten T over IrDA to my T23.  Here's
>what I had to do:
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>  1. flash the BIOS to a newer version, because otherwise I couldn't
>     perform step 2
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bios upgrades from IBM ?

>  2. enable IrDA in the BIOS 
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>  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):
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>       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
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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)
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>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.
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that sound good, what about another profile for jpilot ?

>Marius Gedminas
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thanks Marius,
djp