<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Introduction</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Handspring-Visor with Linux mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Standard Information" HREF="stanrd.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Configuring the Kernel" HREF="kernel.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Handspring-Visor with Linux mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="stanrd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="kernel.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="INTRODUCTION" ></A >2. Introduction</H1 ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="DEVICES" ></A >2.1. Supported Devices</H2 ><P > The following list of PDA's are supported by the Linux USB-Visor module: </P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Handspring Visor (all)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Palm USB Devices (all)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Sony Clie (all)</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="NEEDED" ></A >2.2. What's needed?</H2 ><P > To syncronize your Handspring Visor onto your linux computer, you need to configure linux to know how to do the low-level communication with your device, and then a a user-space program to do the actual communication with the device. </P ><P > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="DISTROS" ></A >2.3. Linux Distributions</H2 ><P > Many distibutions now come with kernels pre-configured with appropriate support. If you have such a distro, and do not wish to re-compile the kernel, then you can probably skip ahead to the <A HREF="syncsoftware.html" >Syncronziation Software</A > section. The following is an incomplete list of distro's that have support pre-configured: </P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Mandrake 8.2 (or later)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Redhat 7.2 (or later)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Suse 8.0 (or later)</P ></LI ></UL ><P > You may check if your distro already has support by running this command as root: </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >modprobe visor</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > If the program printed any error messages, then you will need to re-compile the kernel with the approriate support. If nothing was printed, it means that it was successful, and your distro already provides support. </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="stanrd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="kernel.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Standard Information</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Configuring the Kernel</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >