Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem
Could you be so kind as to point me to the place where I can find the
visor module option in make menuconfig? I cant seem to find it. Maybe
I'm looking the wrong place. I'm using v2.4.18 BTW.
davidc
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:39, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I just installed Woody r1 (presumably, as I connected to sources on the
> net while installing, and it downloaded a lot of stuff). I included
> pilot-link, gnome-pilot, evolution, and the things they each said they
> depended on. The kernel is 2.2.20.
>
> I have been running Redhat 7.3, and have been reliably synch'ing my
> Handspring Visor Prism for months. I know this works - I've been doing
> it.
>
> It's not happening with Debian so far though. I've appended some
> information at the end of this message.
>
> The visor modules reports as loaded, but the error message seems to say
> it's not. I'm not at all sure how to proceed from here. I've read the
> Visor mini-HowTo - that's how I got it working in Redhat. Nothing in
> that document seems relevant here - I followed all the steps again, and
> that doesn't seem to be it. This appears to be the relevant issue:
>
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user
> mode driver visor
>
> lsmod says the visor modules is loaded.
>
> Directly attempting the hotsync with pilot-link, a la the HowTo, gets a
> message about pi_bind:
> Unable to bind to port /dev/ttyUSB1
> pi_bind: Permission denied
>
>
> Any thoughts, please?
>
> Bret
>
> ========================================================================
> Two attempts to hotsync - and the results from /var/log/messages:
>
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
> assigned device number 3
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
> device number 3
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod
> 0x82d/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver.
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup visor for USB
> product 82d/100/0100
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support
> registered for Generic
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usb.c: registered new driver serial
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: v1.0.0:USB Serial Driver
> core
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support
> registered for Handspring Visor
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> detected
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: Number of
> ports: 2
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: port 1, is
> for Generic use and is bound to ttyUSB0
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: port 2, is
> for HotSync use and is bound to ttyUSB1
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha kernel: visor.c: v1.0.0:USB HandSpring Visor
> driver
> Dec 20 10:49:50 ganesha /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user
> mode driver visor
> Dec 20 10:49:57 ganesha kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 3
> Dec 20 10:49:57 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now disconnected from ttyUSB0
> Dec 20 10:49:57 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now disconnected from ttyUSB1
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
> assigned device number 4
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
> device number 4
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> detected
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: Number of
> ports: 2
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: port 1, is
> for Generic use and is bound to ttyUSB0
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: port 2, is
> for HotSync use and is bound to ttyUSB1
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup visor for USB
> product 82d/100/0100
> Dec 20 10:50:37 ganesha /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user
> mode driver visor
> Dec 20 10:50:42 ganesha kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 4
> Dec 20 10:50:42 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now disconnected from ttyUSB0
> Dec 20 10:50:42 ganesha kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
> now disconnected from ttyUSB1
>
> lsmod:
>
> Module Size Used by
> visor 6828 0 (unused)
> usbserial 16020 0 [visor]
> irtty 5020 2 (autoclean)
> irda 71341 1 (autoclean) [irtty]
> tap0 2236 1 (autoclean)
> lockd 42420 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sunrpc 57816 0 (autoclean) [lockd]
> usb-uhci 18220 0 (unused)
> usbcore 43920 1 [visor usbserial usb-uhci]
> vfat 9428 2 (autoclean)
> eepro100 14888 1
> nls_iso8859-8 2904 0 (unused)
> nls_iso8859-15 2904 0 (unused)
> nls_iso8859-1 2392 0 (unused)
> nls_cp862 4152 0 (unused)
> nls_cp850 3128 0 (unused)
> nls_cp437 3896 4
> parport_probe 3360 0 (autoclean)
> parport_pc 7276 1 (autoclean)
> lp 4580 0 (unused)
> parport 6852 1 [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
> af_packet 6152 2
> unix 11352 76 (autoclean)
>
> Press hotsync button, wait two seconds, then press RETURN on this line:
> bret@ganesha:~$ pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b visorbackup
>
> Unable to bind to port /dev/ttyUSB1
> pi_bind: Permission denied
>
>
>
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