Palm MPC

Palm MPC is a MPD client for Palm OS 3.5 or later.

If you're interested, you might want the SourceForge page or to grab a copy.

Installation

PalmMPC needs network access to the MPD server. If your Palm isn't blessed with WiFi, it can be connected to the network via its cradle like so:

• a server that runs or has access to the MPD server acts as a gateway using PPP in much the same way as a dial-up ISP does
• the Palm connects to the server via PPP
• the gate is 10.1.1.254 at one end of the PPP link and the Palm is 10.1.1.1 at the other end
• the gate forwards traffic for the Palm
• the Palm connects to the MPD server

This at least works with:

• a Palm m515
• Palm OS 4.1
• a MicroClient
• Debian Etch with a 2.6.26-bpo.1-486 kernel and the visor module

With the m515, the USB device doesn't manifest itself on the server until the network is brought up on the Palm, which means that pppd can't run all the time because the serial port is not present all the time.

Say this to your terminal:

  sudo apt-get install ppp
  

Then edit the following files:

/etc/ppp/peers/serial-server

  /dev/ttyUSB1
  local
  10.1.1.254:10.1.1.1
  ms-dns 192.168.1.254
  noauth
  persist
  

/etc/rc.local

  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
  iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
  

/etc/udev/rules.d/z49_neils.rules

  SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*|Handspring *", KERNEL=="ttyUSB1", RUN+="/usr/bin/pon serial-server"
  

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