Re: gnome-pilot can't see my palm V (jpilot can)

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 08:35 -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> I think there's some problem with the hardware on my palm.  SUddenly I
> can no longer connect with pilot-xfer OR jpilot, and removing the USB
> cable from the computer generates a kernel OOPS:

by crikey!
a kernel oops is a kernel bug.  your palm, which I very much doubt is
dodgy, should absolutely not be capable of crashing your kernel.

I've had a quick look at the linux-usb-devel mailing list, and it seems
as though several usbserial bugs have (very) recently been fixed:  eg:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15673271

Is there any kernel update available for you, in any bleeding edge
ubuntu release?

Frankly, I'm relieved your problems aren't gnome-pilot specific, because
that was inconsistent with our suspicion of kernel-level trouble.  Not
that it's a relief for you :(

You could try posting your message to the linux-usb-devel list to see if
it is recognised as a known issue and/or trawling the archives to see if
it's fixed.

Matt


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