Re: [tlug] Here we go with the Palm Pilot

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Joe, Edward,
> You could try:
>   find /dev -name ttyUSB0
>   
Okay, first I did this and it only found the files in a weird subdirectory:
dave@example.com:/dev$ find /dev -name ttyUSB1
/dev/.static/dev/ttyUSB1

Then I was looking back over the thread, and I noticed that Edward had 
given some advice that I had missed before, which was to correct how I 
had edited /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules to use the following:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", 
SYMLINK="pilot"

Then I went back to trying to sync the files and seeing if there was any 
change, and now there is a ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 in the /dev directory:
dave@example.com:/dev$ find /dev -name ttyUSB1
/dev/ttyUSB1
/dev/.static/dev/ttyUSB1
dave@example.com:/dev$ ls ttyUSB*
ttyUSB0  ttyUSB1

So that seems encouraging.

But, in Jpilot, or in Gnome-Pilot, it still won't connect.

However, the error message in J-Pilot has changed slightly:

dlp_ReadSysInfo error
Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_PI_CONNECT
Finished

It used to say "SYNC_ERROR_BIND". So I looked up this new error message 
on Google, and that was about as unproductive as it always is. I found 
one guy with a Zire who says by doing an elaborate dance of timing and 
button pressing he got it to work. But his button set up seems 
different, and in any case, if I have to do a Voodoo dance every time to 
sync the thing, then surely something isn't right.

By the way, when I typed in lsmod, I got visor listed here:
usbcore               137700  10 
visor,usbserial,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usb_lib,wacom,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd

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Dave M G