Re: [tlug] I'm a glutton for punishment - Palm Pilot and Ubuntu Dapper LTS connectivity

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

Godwin,

Thank you for responding.
> You probably need to look at your udev configuration (if your distro
> uses that) for the ttyUSB? issue, and hotplug for the wierdo symlink.
>
>   
Well, for hotplug, all I have in /lib/hotplug is a directory called 
"firmware". And in that are a bunch of files that are way cryptic looking.

On the UDEV side, let's see now... in /etc/udev/rules.d, I've got this 
file called 10-custom.rules, and it there's just one line:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", 
NAME{ignore_remove}="pilot", MODE="666"

Hmm... oh, and here's another one called 10-udev.rules, and it also 
contains only one line:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", 
SYMLINK="pilot"

Okay, so, two of these is probably not good. First I tried removing the 
one called "10-udev.rules", but I still kept getting the red "pilot' 
symlink. So then I put that one back and removed the one called 
"10-custom.rules". Then I restarted udev.

Now I get a nice blue symlink file called "pilot", who points to 
ttyUSB1. That looks better.

But, here's where I notice something else. Those files appear as soon as 
I plug the Palm Pilot into the USB port. Not when I press sync, as it 
should be. Hmmm...

So I thought I'd try Scott's command (with some variants):

dave@example.com:/dev$ pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB0 --list
  Listening to port: /dev/ttyUSB0
  Please press the HotSync button now... Connected
  Error read system info on /dev/ttyUSB0
dave@example.com:/dev$ pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --list
  Listening to port: /dev/pilot
  Please press the HotSync button now... Connected
  Error read system info on /dev/pilot
dave@example.com:/dev$ pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 --list
  Listening to port: /dev/ttyUSB1
  Please press the HotSync button now... Connected
  Error read system info on /dev/ttyUSB1

I looked up that error message on the 'net, and was led down the garden 
path.

So... I guess what I'm wondering now is why would my Palm be connected 
right from plugging in the USB instead of from pressing the hotsync 
button? Would that be a udev issue?


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Dave M G