Re: Installation Familiar

From: Colin Marquardt <colin.a.t.marquardt-home.de>
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 05:49:08 EDT

"Urs Rau" <urs.rau@uk.om.org> writes:

> If you can't wait until such a cable becomes available to you,
> then there are a few home-made soldering instructions available
> on the net that include everything from adding serial cable to your
> exisiting usb cradle (making it a combo usb/serial cradle) all the
> way to even also adding the power supply cable into the usb
> cradle so the iPAQ charges off of the internal power of the usb
> bus ...
>
> One of those links is
> http://ipaq.secret.org.uk/

I would do that charging over USB only if I was using an externally
powered USB hub. If USB works anything like FireWire (IEEE1349),
then the iPAQ reports totally wrong power consumption values to the
other side.

Cheers,
  Colin

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