Re: Mandriva 2008 and libusb

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 30 octobre 2007 à 21:19 +1100, Andrew Greig a écrit :
> 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;-)

So, it looks like pilot-link doesn't detect your Lifedrive.

Try running (and make sure visor module is NOT loaded) :
PILOT_DEBUG=DEV PILOT_DEBUG_LEVEL=DEBUG PILOT_LOG=1
PILOT_LOGFILE=/tmp/your_pilot_log_file pilot-xfer -p usb: -l 

so we can see why it doesn't work.
-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva