Internet access via Palm

[Lisandro Weissheimer]

Some extra info.

My Palm is a Zire 72s

I can sync with Jpilot using "usb:" but, if this is a device, it's not
listed in /dev.

Any idea?
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Lisandro Weissheimer
(51) 8414-7715
lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
http://www.weissheimer.eti.br
MSN: lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
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Linux Registered User # 458298
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Lisandro Weissheimer wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> It doesnt work for me.
> 
> I don't have /dev/ttyUSB1 and in the Palm the message I got is:
> 
> Error: PPP timeout (0x1231).
> 
> Thanks
> ___________________________________
> Lisandro Weissheimer
> (51) 8414-7715
> lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
> http://www.weissheimer.eti.br
> MSN: lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
> ___________________________________
> Linux Registered User # 458298
> ___________________________________
> 
> 
> Richard Mancusi wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 2007 7:54 PM, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> I want to access internet in my Palm using my notebook's internet
>>>> connection.
>>>>
>>>> My Palm is being recognized in usb:. I can sync perfectly with JPilot.
>>>>
>>>> I think I should enable a pppd daemon but don't know to do this and get
>>>> it working.
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody help me?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>> --
>>>> ___________________________________
>>>> Lisandro Weissheimer
>>>> (51) 8414-7715
>>>> lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
>>>> http://www.weissheimer.eti.br
>>>> MSN: lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
>>>> ___________________________________
>>> I didn't know the answer to your question so I forwarded your
>>> email to someone I thought would.  His reply follows:
>>>
>>> ----------
>>> I hadn't done this in years.  I just tried it and it works.
>>>
>>> He doesn't say what Palm he has.  The Treo's network connection is a
>>> little different.
>>>
>>> On the Palm in Prefs->Network create a new service and call it Unix.
>>> The connection should be cradle/cable.  The user name is the name of a
>>> login on the PC.  The password is the password.  Under advanced the
>>> script should be blank.
>>>
>>> On the Palm try to connect in Prefs->Network to get /dev/ttyUSB1
>>> created.  Then on the PC do:
>>>
>>> On the PC I had to do a "modprobe visor" since Ubuntu uses libusb now.
>>> Type "pppd /dev/ttyUSB1 19200 {your machine name, or IP}:{An IP to
>>> assign to the Palm} local persist passive silent proxyarp noauth
>>>
>>> i.e. pppd /dev/ttyUSB1 19200 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.5 local persist
>>> passive silent proxyarp noauth
>>> ----------
>>>
>>> hth
>>> -rich
>>>
>> I think I got his interest.  He just replied with this additional info:
>>
>> ----------
>> I first tried hitting my internal web server which worked fine.  I'm
>> having trouble getting out of the network from the Palm.  Its probably
>> my firewall.
>>
>> If you leave the noauth off of the pppd you can run it as a user and not
>> with sudo, or root.  The older Palms didn't have a place for a password,
>> so I had that in my old script.  Also, the 19200 is not needed for USB.
>> ----------
>>
>> -rich
>>
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