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>Handspring-Visor with Linux mini-HOWTO</TH
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>2. Introduction</H1
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>2.1. Supported Devices</H2
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> The following list of PDA's are supported by the Linux USB-Visor module:
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>Handspring Visor (all)</P
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>Palm USB Devices (all)</P
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>Sony Clie (all)</P
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>2.2. What's needed?</H2
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> To syncronize your Handspring Visor onto your linux computer, you
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need to configure linux to know how to do the low-level communication
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with your device, and then a a user-space program to do the actual
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communication with the device.
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>2.3. Linux Distributions</H2
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> Many distibutions now come with kernels pre-configured with appropriate
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support. If you have such a distro, and do not wish to re-compile the
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kernel, then you can probably skip ahead to the
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>Syncronziation Software</A
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The following is an incomplete list of distro's that have
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support pre-configured:
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>Mandrake 8.2 (or later)</P
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>Redhat 7.2 (or later)</P
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>Suse 8.0 (or later)</P
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> You may check if your distro already has support by running this command
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as root:
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>modprobe visor</PRE
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> If the program printed any error messages, then you will need to
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re-compile the kernel with the approriate support. If nothing
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was printed, it means that it was successful, and your distro
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already provides support.
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