Roger Munoz wrote: > > Hi > > Has anybody managed to get the palm m505 usb cradle to work with jpilot in > MDK8.1? > > Roger >
FWIW - our experience with the visor usb cradle and jpilot since I haven't seen a response, to the list anyway, regarding your query about the palm m505. Some, all, or none of this may apply to the palm - I don't have one so I don't know. For the handspring visor usb cradle you need the following: /etc/sysconfig/usb # -*- Mode: sh -*- <snip> USB=yes <snip> visor=yes /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. <snip> # load usb & visor modules usbcore usb-uhci usbserial visor (Adjust for usb-uhci/usb-ohci on the line above as needed for your usb chipset.) /etc/devfsd.conf should contain the lines: REGISTER usb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script add $devpath UNREGISTER usb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script del $devpath At this point the automagic of devfs is supposed to make this just work though our experience is that this can be a precarious thing. Go into the gnome control center and use the pilot-link (or pilot-conduit - they seem to be the same thing) to set up the conduits and the initial sync. The critical thing we've found is to always press the hot sync button on the usb cradle before initiating any sync operations in jpilot or the conduit configuration. IF you can get the conduit configuration to go then everything seems to be fine thereafter - but it took us about a dozen attempts before we finally got it to all come together. The above uses devfs in mdk 8.1 to make it all happen automagically. If the automagic gives you trouble, as it did us at first, there is a (probably incorrect but functional) fallback position you can use. We used a script containing the following called from rc.local at boot time to manually create the usb nodes. This worked for us for a week or so until we got the automagic to work. #! /bin/sh # Create usb device nodes. mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 1 <snip 2-14) mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 15 chmod 0666 /dev/usb/ttyUSB* ln -f -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot (note that there are 16 nodes (0 through 15), I snipped some for brevity.) If you can get the devfs automagic to happen you don't need this last stuff. Ours gave us problems at first and I don't even know what we did to fix it. YMMV. Good Luck. I hope some of this applies to the palm unit. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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