<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux Terminal on Palm (Handspring Visor) via IR</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Infrared HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Specific Connections and IrDA - Protocols" HREF="infrared-howto-c-specific-connections.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Palm III Connection - IrCOMM" HREF="infrared-howto-s-palm-connection.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Psion 5 Connection" HREF="infrared-howto-s-psion5-connection.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" >Linux Infrared HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="infrared-howto-s-palm-connection.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 3. Specific Connections and IrDA - Protocols</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="infrared-howto-s-psion5-connection.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="infrared-howto-s-terminal-palm" ></A >3.6. Linux Terminal on Palm (Handspring Visor) via IR</H1 ><P > by Chris Morris on Linux/IrDA list: In addition to using IrDA to hotsync my Handspring Visor I got my Handspring visor to work as a Linux text terminal via infrared last night. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 3800 (BTW I wracked my brains for weeks trying to get IR to work. The whole problem was caused by Linux looking at the wrong IRQ for ttyS3 . ). I am using Beam Sync for Visor V1.0b2 by <A HREF="http://muchy.com/index.html" TARGET="_top" >Hacker Dude-san</A > (in Japanese) and <A HREF="http://pamupamu.tripod.co.jp/soft/mterm/mterm_E.htm" TARGET="_top" >MiniTerm</A > (a former version of this HOWTO referred to it as MTerm) by Shigeyuki Seko . On the laptop I have IrDA set to SIR mode and COM 3 via BIOS. I have to set <TT CLASS="filename" >/dev/ttyS3</TT > to IRQ3 via <B CLASS="command" >setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 3</B > on boot up. After boot up I do a: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > /sbin/modprobe irda /sbin/modprobe irtty /sbin/modprobe ircomm /sbin/ircomm-tty /usr/sbin/irattach /dev/ttyS3 -s </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > <B CLASS="command" >cat /proc/net/irda/discovery</B > shows the visor as IrComm Now /etc/mgetty+fax/mgetty.conf has to have these options: port ttyS3 direct y speed 9600 , faster maybe possible but only 9600 worked for me so far toggle-dtr n Then in /etc/inittab: palm:235:respawn: /sbin/mgetty ircomm0 After all of this I can start MiniTerm, issue a '/sbin/init q' then send a few <CR> from the Visor and I get a text termianl login. While composing this email I found a previously undiscovered website that seems most helpful: <A HREF="http://abgruen.de/palm/palm-ppp-mini.txt" TARGET="_top" >palm-ppp-mini</A > </P ></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="infrared-howto-s-palm-connection.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="infrared-howto-s-psion5-connection.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Palm III Connection - IrCOMM</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="infrared-howto-c-specific-connections.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Psion 5 Connection</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
