[vox] Syncing Palm Pilot

[Jonathan Stickel]

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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