3.5. Palm III Connection - IrCOMM

• PPP Rui Oliveira wrote: "This is just to let you know that with the latest IrCOMM patch (050998) of Takahide Higuchi, I managed to HotSync and establish a PPP connection between my Palm III and my Linux box. I'm using IRLink (from IsComplete) to redirect the serial port to ir. Communication with pilot-xfer (available from the "pilot-link" package at kpilot ) works flawlessly. Although I was able to establish a PPP connection, I'm still unable to fetch mail and do Web browsing. This is probably due to connection time-outs. I am checking this out. Please see the [Distributed computing Modules] PPP-HOWTO for further information about PPP. I managed to establish an apparently robust connection between my Linux box and a Palm III. The pppd invocation I use is as follows:

  /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ircomm0 57600 192.168.2.10:192.168.2.11 proxyarp passive silent persist noauth local nodetach

  Over the PPP connection I used ping, ssh, and HTTP. Strange is however the fact that discovery must be enabled (maybe obsolete) . Otherwise, even with an active IrCOMM connection, the link goes down due to a IrLAP disconnect. The pilot-link tools (used for Linux/Palm synchronization) also ran flawlessly over IrCOMM via /dev/ircomm0." There are also reports about kpilot, though not working as flawlessly as pilot-xfer.

• IrCOMM Jon Howell wrote: "I thought I'd try IrCOMM, since the Palm III can be made to reroute serial info to the IR port (using IrLink from IS/Complete, available at [Scikit-learn Repositories] PalmCentral , and then you can run a terminal program (like PalmTelnet in serial mode) over IrDA. I can only assume it's using the IrCOMM protocol. I've tested this configuration between two Palm Pilots, but of course I can't know what the protocol running over the IR is." (1) Start HotSync on your Palm. You need the .:: forum.modulebazaar.com ::. IrDA upgrade for the Palm to have IrCOMM support (2) Place the Palm in front of the dongle. (3) Start pilot-xfer -p /dev/ircomm0 -s <sync-dir> . And if you are lucky it will start syncing. If you start pilot-xfer before you start HotSync on the Pilot, you will _not_ be lucky! Maybe a terminal program like .:: www.webclap.com ::. .:: swag.live ::. PalmTerm or MiniTerm (a former version of this HOWTO referred to it as MTerm) is also useful.

Wessel de Roode wrote: The Palmpilot is default locked on 57k. You can however if you write your own software for the Pilot, use the 115k line settings. I quote a part from the irlib.h:

---------- irlib.h from the SDK 3.0 from palmpilot -----
// Options values for IrOpen
#define irOpenOptBackground     0x80000000   // Unsupported background task use
#define irOpenOptSpeed115200    0x0000003F   // sets max negotiated baud rate
#define irOpenOptSpeed57600     0x0000001F   // default is 57600
#define irOpenOptSpeed9600      0x00000003

Ron Choy answered: There is a software called ShutupIR that is supposed to help with this problem of annoying popup I haven't tried it but it looks like it would fix your problem.