On Friday 26 September 2003 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:50:38 -0700
MIne is working just fine now! I just followed the hints on that page sent to us! THANKS YOU ALL! The only thing really important is that software: pilot-xfer and the links suggested on that page! Happy user now! Ricardo Castanho > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > > I doubt that visor & usb-uhc1 should be unused. I've spent over 10 > > hours trying to get this to work, scouring google, and I've come to > > the conclusion that something's good and broken. The palm is set to > > use USB for sync, every instruction has been followed and refollowed. > > I'm out of ideas. > > I'm really really sorry if this is a repetition or if it's been tried > already, but just in case, you may need to type first: > > export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB1 > > I missed the rest of the thread, so, again, sorry if that's old crap. > =-=-= > > No joy with that, but thanks. No matter what I can't get the Palm to Bind. > (The USB ports are working fine with USBLookup, but the Palm comes up as > "Unknown device" when I hit the hotsync button, and nothing when I don't. > A smart media card reader plugged into the same port works fine.) > > About a week ago you directed me to the excellent instructions to be found > at http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/introduction.html. I > followed the directions, spent over 8 hours scouring the web for other > sites with hints, tried, tried and tried again, but I'm just not having any > luck and I'm so much the newbie that I don't even know what's not working. > Here are the steps I've taken and the results, in the order given by the > above document. > > Modprobe Visor (as root) > Results in no error message. This supposedly indicates that the distro has > been compiled with the appropriate support. I can supposedly skip to the > Synch section of the document. > > As root: > cd ~ > mkdir visorbackup > pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b visorbackup > > Results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b visorbackup > > ERROR: No such device (19) > > Press the HotSync button first and relaunch this conduit.. > > Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyUSB1 > Please use --help for more information > > [Help provides nothing I can see related to getting "no such device" to > "bind to port".] > > Alright, so this distro should've had appropriate support but > something's wrong, I'll go back to the part that was skipped and do that > stuff. Here's what I'm running, btw: Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 > (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003. > > Ok, so back to the supposedly unnecessary "configuring the kernal" part > of the above document: > > lspci -v > > [results in learning that I have a UHCI controller] > > Then there's some stuff about configuring and making my kernal. I > don't understand this, shouldn't need to be changing the most central > elements of the OS (afik) and so I haven't messed with that at all. > > Then there's a bit about usbdevfs, but iirc when I looked at /etc/fstab, > that entry was already in there. This would probably explain why > USBLookup is working excellently with my other USB device. > > Then making /dev entries [root]: > mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 [repeated for 4 USB ports (0-3)). > chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB* > > cd /dev > ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 pilot > ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 palm > > /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci > /sbin/modprobe visor > > [push the hotsync button] > pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b visorbackup > > ERROR: No such device (19) > > Press the HotSync button first and relaunch this conduit.. > > Unable to bind to port: /dev/ttyUSB1 > Please use --help for more information > > > Bleh! Any advice appreciated. > > > USB ports work, the seems to be that the OS doesn't realize that I *have* > already pushed the hotsync button (yes, the button works). Yes, the palm > device is set up to sync USB at 9600 with auto flow control. > > -- clueless newbie without a synced palm -- ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] user => [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================== AntiVir for UNIX Copyright (C) 1994-2002 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights reserved. For more information see http://www.antivir.de/ or http://www.hbedv.com/ Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:55:00 -0300 23:55:00 up 3 days, 11:28, 4 users, load average: 1.55, 1.35, 1.31 Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus.
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