Re: Re: Connecting to the iPAQ

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:28:19PM -0700, Jonathan Pennington wrote:
> James Milner wrote:
> > Have you tried a USB -> RS232 adapter. Very cheap and well supported.
>
> No, I didn't realize that it was a possible solution. I'll look into that.
>

Also IR might just work with a little tweaking. Im not sure if anyone
has tried.

> Just to make sure I know what's going on. I'm loading HaRET and using
> that to boot the kernel, which will allow me to mess around and help
> port on my off time. Then I can hard reset or use some other method to
> reboot into WinCE? I'm using this iPAQ for work, and while I want to
> help get the kernel drivers working so that we can all use Linux on this
> series, until there's a workable system, I unfortunately have to rely on
> the current OS.
>

wince is still going to be there after you reboot from linux, but all
your data will be gone (just like when you do a hard reset). so just
remember to back it up first.

cya,
sa
Received on Sun Jul 25 14:12:12 2004