Re: FAQ? Palm i705 and Linux

["Peter L. Berghold" <Peter Berghold Net>]

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 13:01, JP Rosevear wrote:
> Some starting steps (assuming linux):
> 
> 1. Attach to your system and hit the hotsync button.  Look at
> /var/log/messages to see if the device is recognized (i think you need
> kernel 2.4.18 for that device at minimum).

/var/log/messages showed this beast taking two ports  as follows:

May  6 14:07:59 RedCowDawg kernel: usbserial.c: Palm 4.0 converter now
attached
to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
May  6 14:07:59 RedCowDawg kernel: usbserial.c: Palm 4.0 converter now
attached
to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)


> 2. If it is recognized as per 1 check to see what /proc/bus/usb/devices
> contains when you hit the hot sync button
> 
> What version of pilot-link/gnome-pilot are you using?
> 
--$  rpm -q --all | grep pilot
pilot-link-devel-0.11.5-4.ximian.1
gnome-pilot-devel-0.1.71-0.ximian.1
gnome-pilot-conduits-0.10-1.ximian.1
gnome-pilot-0.1.71-0.ximian.1
pilot-link-0.11.5-4.ximian.1
evolution-pilot-1.2.4-0.ximian.1

Got it from Ximian. 


Based on what you gave me already I got the thing to at least do a
successful sync. Now I got to figure out the rest of the stuff (email
and such) that is useful to the messaging group. 


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Peter L. Berghold                                    Peter Berghold Net
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