2.2. What's needed?
To syncronize your Handspring Visor onto your linux computer, you
need to configure linux to know how to do the low-level communication
with your device, and then a a user-space program to do the actual
communication with the device.
2.3. Linux Distributions
Many distibutions now come with kernels pre-configured with appropriate
support. If you have such a distro, and do not wish to re-compile the
kernel, then you can probably skip ahead to the
Syncronziation Software section.
The following is an incomplete list of distro's that have
support pre-configured:
Mandrake 8.2 (or later)
Redhat 7.2 (or later)
Suse 8.0 (or later)
You may check if your distro already has support by running this command
as root:
If the program printed any error messages, then you will need to
re-compile the kernel with the approriate support. If nothing
was printed, it means that it was successful, and your distro
already provides support.
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