SPV and linux?

[Guest ingvorsen]

Hallo dear smartphone experts

Does anybody know is a combination of linux and SPV can exist?

Or if anybody has seen an opensource version og MS ActiveSync?

Thanks in advance!

[Guest ashley.flynn]

i think pocket PC owners will know more about this

[Guest antz]

It can exist.

There ws a thread about this earlier, using a patched iPAQ driver it *may* be possible to get the two to talk to each other.

However, no one has yet managed the SPV to talk to a Linux PC that I know of. SynCE has recently seen a lot of activity, you may get that to work. Also the documentation for iPAQ driver (should be somewhere in /usr/src/linux) includes many tips on getting them to talk.

I patched and recompiled my 2.4.20 kernel, and have spent a bit of time trying to get them to work, and I got as far as:

1. SPV being identified as an iPAQ, and iPAQ module being modprobed.

2. pppd automatically starting a ppp connection to it and exchanging the SERVER/CLIENTSERVER greetings (which means the iPAQ driver works with SPV), after which I get a strange error message. I can not be more specific as I am now in windows and my logfiles are on an ext3 partition. Unfortunately the ActiveSync protocol is not documented anywhere I looked for it, and trying to make something which works with it reliably is hard.

If someone DOES manage to get them to connect and to transfer files could you please post a howto/email me?

Also if someone stumbles across an ActiveSync protocol specs could they post a url here?

Thanks and good luck!