Re: Handspring

[Neil West <westn cox net>]

Thanks for all of your help.  I got all of the required segments/modules
on the kernel.  I did the mount -t usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
/proc/bus/usb.  There was a usb directory with 2 sub directories:
drivers and devices.  I hit the hot synch button and cat the devices
file but find it empty.  Also the drivers file has 2 entries: usbdevfs
and hub.  If you have any clues I would be very appreciative.

Thanks
Neil


On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 09:56, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
> > I assume that I did not compile the proper support into the Kernel or
> > should there be a daemon that needs to be running? Are there any specific
> > protocols that need to be compiled into the kernel to support USB?
> 
> 	There's a few bits you'll need, depending on your USB controller in
> your machine. I always compile usbcore as monolithic, and *EVERYTHING* else
> that I need as a module, for several reasons, the least of which is that I
> can unload, recompile, and reload the module without rebooting.
> 
> 	 You'll need at least the following in your kernel, which will give
> you the necessary usbserial.o, visor.o, usb-uhci.o (or usb-ohci.o, depending
> on your controller, UHCI is the more popular one):
> 
> 	CONFIG_USB=y
> 	CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y
> 	CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
> 	CONFIG_USB_UHCI=m
> 	CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=m
> 	CONFIG_USB_OHCI=m
> 	CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
> 	CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
> 	CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
> 
> 	Once that is done, mount the usbdevfs (which is completely unrelated
> to devfs, it just got a bad name, and is being renamed in 2.5 to usbfs). You
> can do that with the following:
> 
> 	mount -t usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
> 
> 	That will give you access to /proc/bus/usb/devices, when you hit
> HotSync. If you do a 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices' after hitting HotSync on
> the cradle, you should see the Palm device registered there.
> 
> 	Remember, cradling the Palm does not create the device, nor does it
> "connect" it to the desktop. You have to make a physical, electrical
> connection from Palm to cradle via the HotSync button, which then will wake
> up usbcore to create the proper entries in /dev and /proc.
> 
> 	If you get that far, you can see in /var/log/messages, a blurb about
> the Palm connecting. Hit the HotSync button on the cradle, and gpilotd
> should wake up and do it's work.
> 
> 	Let us know if you get up to this point. I have some information
> similar to this in my "Palm ppp HOWTO", which goes over the details of
> getting USB working to connect Palm to desktop. It may be useful to you:
> 
> 	http://pilot-link.org/howto/ppp/index.html#usbconfig
> 
> 	Good luck!
> 
> /d
> 
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