Re: Palm V can't communicate with pilot-xfer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:14:12PM -0500, bill luecke wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm having trouble getting up and running with my Palm V on my Debian
> system. Specifically, i can't get pilot-xfer to communicate with the
> Palm.
>
> I'm out of ideas of stuff to try here. I'm including a summary of
> tests run and experiences gained. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be
> grateful...
What kind of indications are you getting? Are you sure /dev/pilot is
pointing to the same com port (/dev/ttyS*) as the cradle is connected to?
> bill
>
>
> --------------------
> Verification that the comm port works and that I can access it.
>
> 15:53:41 luecke ~\ ls -l /dev/pilot
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 28 15:22 /dev/pilot -> ttyS0
> 15:53:49 luecke ~\ ls -l /dev/ttyS0
> crwxrwxrwx 1 root dialout 4, 64 Nov 20 12:38 /dev/ttyS0
>
> I also connected a 9pin cable from the comm port to my printer and
> cp'd a text file to the printer successfully, thus proving that I have
> access to ttyS0 and that it works.
>
> I'm using pilot-link 0.9.5-pre3 from helixcode (?) (I upgraded,
> thinking that that might be solve the problem, but the symptoms
> were similar with pilot-link 0.9.3-3)
>
> ------------------------------
> verification that the Palm V works
> (I can sync perfectly at home using Windoze 98 and the supplied Palm V
> desktop software)
>
> Palm Data:
> Palm V
> Flash ID 10FF11806DR9-H
> Palm OS Software v 3.1
>
> I have verified that the Palm is sending data to ttyS0 by doing the
> following:
>
> put the Palm V in the cradle,
>
> issue:
>
> cat /dev/ttyS0
>
> then hit the hot-sync button on the cradle.
>
> On my xterm, I get a bunch of ASCII characters, some of which are
> CTRL-C's (the little diamond). The Palm V first sends a long string (~20
> characters) and then repeats the same ~8 character string at about 2
> second intervals until it gives up. That makes me think that something
> on the linux end is not configured correctly. i.e. pilot-xfer cannot
> communicate back to the Palm that it's there and ready.
>
> I have successfully communicated with it it using another debian
> system (running the simple test pilot-xfer -l) using a slightly later
> kernel, but I don't have very good notes from that experience. It
> appeared that we got no sync at first, and then tried sync'ing with
> the Palm Desktop Software running in Windows '98 under VMWare. After
> we were succesful with that, we could sync from linux as
> well. However, we were changing so many things that we may have
> screwed something up.
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Various software versions
>
> 15:53:55 luecke ~\ pilot-xfer -v
>
> ---o-o--- The Palm name and logo are copyright Palm Computing, Inc.
> ---o--o-- and subsidiaries. All rights reserved.
> ---o-o---
> ---o----- This is pilot-xfer from pilot-link version 0.9.5-pre3
> ---o-----
> ---o----- pilot-link 0.9.5-pre3 is covered under the GPL
> See the file COPYING for more details.
>
>
> 15:55:07 luecke ~\ uname -a
> Linux tin 2.2.14 #1 Wed Mar 29 11:41:52 EST 2000 i586 unknown
>
> 15:56:25 luecke ~\ setserial -a /dev/ttyS0
> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinite
> Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>
>
> 15:56:31 luecke ~\ stty -a < /dev/ttyS0
> speed 9600 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0;
> intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
> eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
> lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
> -parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts
> -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
> -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
> opost -olcuc -ocrnl -onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0
> ff0
> -isig -icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echonl noflsh -xcase -tostop
> -echoprt -echoctl -echoke
>
> --
> William Luecke
> NIST Ceramics Division; Ceramic Manufacturing Group
> 100 Bureau Dr MS 8521, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
> william.luecke@nist.gov 301 975 5744 (voice) 301 975 5334 (fax)
>
> So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and
> abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed
> upon the wall round about. - Eze 8:10
>
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--Brad
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