F9: libusb & palm syncing not working

Brian Mury brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca
Thu Jun 5 00:50:25 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:35 +0100, Kevin Page wrote:
> It seems very likely that this is an incompatibility between the
> pilot-link libusb code and m130 handhelds (and therefore a problem with
> libusb on all distributions), not a problem with the PolicyKit config in
> F9.

Yeah, that's the conclusion I had come to, but it's nice to have some
confirmation.

BTW, I followed the instructions
in /usr/share/doc/pilot-link-0.12.3/README.fedora to set up the visor
module. I can synchronize this way by pointing gome-pilot
at /dev/ttyUSB0, but the /dev/pilot link does not get created. Here's
what I get in /var/log/messages when I press the cradle's hotsync
button:

Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: visor 3-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0830, idProduct=0050
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: Product: <FF><F7><9F>
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc.
Jun  4 17:42:48 localhost kernel: usb 3-1: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678

An extremely minor issue to be sure, but I'm curious why I don't get /dev/pilot. Ideas?





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