I'm not sure if this is the same thing that is being asked. Can you
wake-up a sleeping palm on the cradle from the PC side? I didn't think
this was possible (I thought the hotsync button shorted a couple of the
pins of the palm pilot to wake it up). If it is, I would be interested
in knowing how...
-Mike
"Noah J. Ternullo" wrote:
>
> Hmmm,
> Actually this shouldn't be too hard to do using the new serial
> manager which, I believe, means you have to have PalmOS3.3 or later (You
> may need 3.5 I'm not sure.). The first thing yo udo is to check and make
> sure the new serial manager is available on your hardware, which yo ucan
> do by calling:
>
> err = FtrGet(sysFileCSerialMgr, sysFtrNewSerialPresent, &value);
>
> Once this returns successfully, you use SrmOpen to open a conenction to
> port "$8000" which is the normal palm serial port (located at the bottom
> of the palm device), and save that handle off. Next you can call SrmOpen
> again to open a connectio nto port "$8001" wich is the logical ID for the
> Ir port located at the top of the palm device. Save that handle off as
> something different.
>
> Finally you can call SrmReceive (using the handle obtained for the Ir
> port) to obtain chunks of data from the Ir port in thier raw form right
> off the UART (no crunching by the IrDA stack), and then stuff these bytes
> (you don't even have to look at them) right on to the palms normal serial
> port by calling SrmSend (using the handle obtained for the normal serial
> port).
>
> I am assuming that the phone in question has implemented the logcial
> portions of the IrDA protocol, and not the physical portions (which
> require infrared light) and that the phone *physically* speaks RS-232.
>
> Noah J. Ternullo
> Lockhed Martin
> System Engineer
>
>
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