Treo 300: pilot-link works, gnome-pilot doesn't

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct mit edu>]

Hello,

First, a success story: Adam Pennington's 2.4.20 patch at 
http://munge.org/linux/linux-2.4.20-treo.patch (vs. 2.4.21-pre-5 at 
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debs/linux-2.4.21-pre5-treo.patch) makes the 
Handspring Treo 300 work with pilot-xfer!  I can list the files just 
fine now, but haven't tried any other pilot-xfer functions.  Greg K-H is 
planning to merge it so it gets into 2.4.21.  Cool!

Unfortunately, syncing with gnome-pilot doesn't work.  The device 
doesn't connect with the USB port until hotsync is actually pressed, so 
before then, /dev/ttyUSB1 and 0 are dead, and when I "pilot-xfer" before 
pressing hotsync, it says "no such device".

Funny thing is, if gpilotd is running and I push sync, the device hangs 
and never times out.  If I then run pilot-xfer, it sees /dev/ttyUSB1 and 
tries to start syncing, but *then* the device times out (and disconnects).

So I think something is wrong in gpilotd's assumptions about when things 
will happen.  Perhaps it isn't monitoring /dev/ttyUSB1 like it says it 
is, because there's no such device before sync?

How can I help debug?  .gnome-errors prints nothing unusual after I 
press sync, neither is anything unusual in /var/log/kern.log...

One other thing: I haven't cleared out IDs since syncing with my old 
pilot; do I have to create a new entry in the "Pilots" tab of the 
capplet, or erase the "Sync PCId" from the "Advanced" tab?

TIA,
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-Adam P.

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