[vox-tech] Re: [vox] Syncing Palm Pilot

[Jonathan Stickel]

Moving to vox-tech; sorry about the momentary cross-post on vox (didn't 
see it started there until after I sent my response)

Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> I'm no expert, but I've struggled a little myself getting my Handspring 
> to sync.  It sure looks like all your kernel modules are loading 
> properly, the important ones being usbserial and visor.
> 
> Have you checked to see if a "usb-serial" device "magically" appears in 
> /dev when you push the cradle button?  It will be something like 
> /dev/usb/tts/1 or /dev/usbts1.  This is what you tell your palm software 
> to use (perhaps through a /dev/pilot symlink).
> 
> FWIW:  I had a 2.4 kernel where my Handspring would randomly sync only 
> 50% of time, and I could never figure out why.  All my kernal modules 
> loaded, the usbserial device appeared, I had OK log messages, but no 
> sync.  Since I've compiled a 2.6 kernel, it syncs everytime!
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> Rob Rogers wrote:
> 
>> I recently reinstalled Debian (I'm running Sarge) on my desktop.
>> Normaly, I've compiled a custom kernel with everything built in, but
>> this time around, I've decided to leave the default kernel there...I'm
>> trying to learn more about modules and how initrd works and such.
>>
>> Anyways, with everything built in, my Palm has always just worked. For
>> some reason now, I can't seem to get it working. I'm pretty positive
>> I've got all the necessary drivers loaded. Following is what gets logged
>> when I hit the hotsync button on the Palm cradle, and the output from
>> lsmod. I should mention this is using USB, and I know usb-uhci is the
>> proper usb controller...not to mention, my usb mouse works just fine.
>>
>> minerva:~# tail -4 /var/log/messages
>> Feb 19 11:47:27 minerva -- MARK --
>> Feb 19 11:48:02 minerva kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2,
>> assigned device number 6
>> Feb 19 11:48:02 minerva kernel: usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod
>> 0x830/0x50) is not claimed by any active driver.
>> Feb 19 11:49:14 minerva kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 6
>>
>> minerva:~# lsmod
>> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
>> smbfs                  31296   1  (autoclean)
>> mga                   102768   1 agpgart                29792   3 
>> mousedev                3744   1 usbmouse                1760   0  
>> (unused)
>> visor                  10016   0  (unused)
>> usbserial              17856   0  [visor]
>> hid                    18784   0  (unused)
>> cmpci                  26008   5 soundcore               3204   4  
>> [cmpci]
>> via-rhine              12420   1 keybdev                 1664   0  
>> (unused)
>> usbkbd                  2848   0  (unused)
>> input                   3040   0  [mousedev usbmouse hid keybdev usbkbd]
>> usb-uhci               20676   0  (unused)
>> usbcore                48000   1  [usbmouse visor usbserial hid usbkbd 
>> usb-uhci]
>>
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