Is your KERNEL pattern right?

[Mark Williamson <maw48@cam.ac.uk>]

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[013579]",

Shouldn't you be matching [13579]?  Matching the 0 as well will match the first serial pipe to the handheld, not the second.  On my Palm zire I can only hotsync to the second...

I used the rules:

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[02468]", NAME="zire0"
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]", NAME="zire1"


And then get kpilot to sync to device /dev/zire1 (I'm not sure what the other serial pipe at zire0 is actually useful for, I don't use it).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Mark