[vox-tech] usb woes

Roland (Rusty) Minden vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 22:53:09 -0800


i have only been able to get jpilot working, but it does work very well :-)

Rusty

On Friday 15 February 2002 20:42, you wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > i still can't sync the visor though.  coldsync segfaulted.  recompiled
> > it with -g, did a backtrace, found a null pointer dereference and sent a
> > bug report to the developers.
>
> Are you using the PalmOS sync programs?  I've read they're flaky, if it
> works at all, when using USB connections.  Apparently you can get serial
> connectors that work.
>
> If you get it working, let me know -- I could use syncing on my Clie :)
>
> > btw, i found the problem with the /proc/bus/usb entries, or lack
> > thereof.   i needed to set
> >
> > CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS is not set
> >
> > and then mount the device filesystem in fstab:
> >
> > none       /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs default                    0 0
>
> After mounting /proc/bus/usb, what does usbview show?
>
> -Mark