Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what's the output 
of:

ls -l /dev/pilot



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Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Chris Howie wrote:

> I have been trying for several days to get my palm to
> sync over USB, with no success.  My system is running
> debian etch with the stock 2.6.12 kernel
> (linux-image-2.6.12-1-686) to be precise.
>
> When I tell my palm to HotSync, dmesg displays the
> expected output:
>
> ------- snip -------
> ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup
> usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
> address 12
> visor 2-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
> detected
> usb 2-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now
> attached to ttyUSB0
> usb 2-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now
> attached to ttyUSB1
> usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 12
> visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
> now disconnected from ttyUSB0
> visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter
> now disconnected from ttyUSB1
> ------- snip -------
>
> But pilot-xfer just hangs when trying to install
> something:
>
> ------- snip -------
> chris@pyromaniacs:~/palm/down$ pilot-xfer -i
> PalmVNC.prc
>   No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
>   Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'
>
>
>   Listening to port: /dev/pilot
>
>   Please press the HotSync button now...
> ------- snip -------
>
> I have used the same palm (Tungsten C) with the same
> cradle on several other computers (Windows and Mac
> boxen) and they seem to have no problem talking.  I
> recall this not working either with the stock 2.6.8
> kernel, but it *did* work with the 2.6.11 kernel.
>
> Someone in #debian suggested that I make sure that the
> bps settings on the pilot and the computer were set
> correctly, and they were.  'cat /dev/ttyUSB0' shows
> nothing.  I vaguely remember it displaying several
> garbage characters back when it was working.
>
> So at this point I don't even know what to ask aside
> from "how do I get this working?"
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> ====================================
> Chris
> crazycomputers@yahoo.com
> http://www.chrishowie.com
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>
> perl -mstrict -wle \
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>
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> [You may freely ignore crap beneath.]
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