"James" == James Liggett jrliggett@cox.net writes:
James> I'm not using a "real" adapter. I'm using the visor driver that James> is used to sync a USB palm with things like pilot-link. This
Does the hotplug mechanisme create some /dev/ttyUSBx when you plug in the device? Or is the USB VID/PID at least know to the linix kernel drivers?
James> driver emulates a serial port in much the same way that a real James> one does, or so I think. I was just pointing out that people have James> similar behavior with real adapters, so I thought it might be James> relevant. The visor driver calls itself a "serial converter", and James> it does add USB entries in my /dev/tts folder like a real adapter James> would. But, my palm cradle is plugged into an acutal USB port. I James> do have access to a real USB to serial adapter though; I'll play James> around with it. And another thing--I'm also looking into that James> WinMM crash that keeps Palm Desktop from running. The problem is James> that the function DRIVER_FindFromHDrvr is failing, returning a James> NULL value, which wine tries to derefrence in MMDRV_Install, and James> boom--wine crashes.
Scan the mailing lists. I had another similar problem, Eric pointed me to some problems in my setup.