On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:37:34PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 08/04/07 17:35:10, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
It's been a while since I did any work on synce, but do you have the ipaq driver compiled for your kernel and if so does it get loaded ok when you plug the GPS device in? You need a PPP connection to come up to the device which RAKI will then talk over IIRC. synce-serial-start, if installed, might well help bring this up.
I'm sure I don't have an ipaq driver in the kernel. Is it something I need even though this GPS is not an ipaq?
You don't give a lot of details about model numbers or what drivers you think you have installed and need, so I'm guessing a bit based on knowledge of connecting up WinCE devices that's a few years old.
The ipaq driver provides what looks like a serial device to the kernel. It operates with a range of WinCE devices, originally the iPaq (hence the name), but also things such as smartphones running WinCE. You then run PPP over this serial device, while the WinCE device also does PPP, providing a network connection. Over this IP layer runs the SynCE software which looks like an ActiveSync instance to the device. RAKI is part of the SynCE layer, but you need the device driver and PPP layers to be operational to have any hope of it working.
Does that help you figure out which steps you've missed perhaps? Of course your GPS require something else entirely in which case ignore all of the above. ;)
J.