[ILUG] Palm M500 and Linux

[Paul Mc Auley]

Sean Rima:
| Is there anyway to get the m500 to see my linux setup without having
| to log on, ie using an 192.168 ip address for networking

It depends.

What are you trying to do?

Do you want to be able to do serial-type hotsync operations? Do you just 
want to be able to do network operations? What do you have working at the 
moment? What hardware are you using?

For instance, if you are using a serial cradle rather than a USB one and 
you only want to do network operations, one option would be to run pppd 
from init. The trouble with doing this with a USB cradle is that the 
relevant port (usually /dev/ttyUSB1) only exists when the palm is trying 
to connect, which would lead init to disable the entry for 5 minutes after 
a certain number of failures.

However, you could write a small daemon script which polls for the 
existence of the visor module and attempts to run pppd then, possibly 
testing for the presence of a control file, which you would create if you 
wanted to override this behaviour and do a serial hotsync.

Alternatively, you could explore the option of writing a custom usb 
hotplug script, to be run when the USB connect event happens for the 
cradle. I haven't done this myself, and am uncertain as to whether it 
would be a little too close to the metal for what you are trying to 
achieve.

Finally, you could explore the bluetooth option, getting the bluetooth 
chip for the palm and an adaptor for your host PC, and launch pppd using 
dund.
	Paul