Subject: Re: PDA which works nicely with NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Staffan Thomen <duck@multi.fi>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/16/2004 22:16:32
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On 16 Mar 2004 12:41:55 -0500
"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> tron@zhadum.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
>=20
> > now that my good old Palm III starts to act flaky I'm thinking about
> > getting a replacement. Can anybody recomment a PDA which works
> > nicely with NetBSD? I'm right now using "pilotmgr" with a serial
> > cradel to backup my Palm III and to upload new files to it. And I
> > would like to have at least that level of support for the new one.
>=20
> I like my Tungsten T, and it works reasonably well with NetBSD. I use
> pilot-link, not pilotmgr. There are a couple of glitches with USB
> support (1: occasionally hangs the machine; I'm working on that
> now. 2: no good way to let an app just wait for the device to sync. 3:
> not as fast as it should be, but usually faster than serial). There is
> also the option (which I used for a while before I fixed the USB
> stuff) of using a third-party serial cradle for the T.
>=20
> Tungsten T's are avaliable used and at lower prices now, as the T2 is
> the current model in that space - the T wasn't a current model for
> very long. I expect the T2 would work about as well, since it's just
> an incremental update to the T.

 Err, the T3 has been out for a while, I mean, even I have one :-)

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