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

[Jonathan Stickel]

Rob Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 13:56:48PM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>>Moving to vox-tech; sorry about the momentary cross-post on vox (didn't 
>>see it started there until after I sent my response)
> 
> 
> Oops. I meant to post to vox-tech. :)
> 
> 
>>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!
> 
> 
> I used to have issues with my Handspring, but my Palm has always worked
> flawlessly. I thought the /dev/usb/tts/1 was only for devfs, which I am
> not using. I've always used /dev/ttyUSB0, which always exists. Will /dev
> entries automatically appear if I am not using devfs?

I really don't know the answer to this, since I am totally ignorant 
about devfs.  I seem to recall using /dev/ttyUSB1 when I was using 
RedHat (now I use gentoo).  For me, both /dev/usb/tts/0 and 
/dev/usb/tts/1 appear when I sync, and I know I'm supposed to use #1. 
Do you have a /dev/ttyUSB1?  Perhaps you can try using it instead of 
ttyUSB0.

Jonathan