Mandriva 2008 and libusb

[Andrew Greig <algreig bigpond net au>]

Hi all,

I understand that a Palm LifeDrive should sync "out of the box" with
Mandriva 2007+later under libusb. I have tried under 2007, 2007.1 and
now 2008 without success.  In my desperation to use my business tool I
reverted to the visor module under 2007.1 and it was very reliable. I
have upgraded to Mandriva 2008 and I am otherwise pleased with it, but
sync is really a major irritation.

bash-3.2$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices (snip)
T:  Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 13 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0830 ProdID=0061 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=palmOne, Inc.
S:  Product=palmOne Handheld
S:  SerialNumber=PVG0M635V3E1
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=500mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 4 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=1250us
E:  Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=86(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=88(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
(/snip)

As you can see the Palm LifeDrive is detected but it will not sync under
libusb0.1_4.

For some reason the visor module was loaded and I ran rmmod visor,
before trying the usb: setting.

If I have missed something glaringly obvious, please be gentle;-)

Andrew Greig
Melbourne, Australia