Re: Tungsten-E problems with gnome-pilot on Fedora 7

["George N. White III" <aa056 chebucto ns ca>]

Looks familiar.  I too have a Te and have been using jpilot with
libusb (preferences set to "usb:" rather than "/dev/pilot")
rather than the ttyUSB stuff.  I sometimes use a USB to serial
converter (e.g., with a GPS), so the Palm can use ttyUSB0+1 or
ttyUSB1+2, so the ttyUSB mechanisms have never been reliable.
RH were slow to provide a version with libusb enabled, so I compiled
it myself, but I think this has now been done via an update.

Syncing  wothusb: was problematic at first but has been getting better
with new  udev and kernel versions.   Debian has had similar issues
with 2.6.22 kernels.

On 8/6/07, George Kraft <gkraft gnome org> wrote:
> I have a Tungsten E (Te) running PalmOS that I would like to sync with
> Evolution using the gnome-pilot-2.0.15-5.fc7 package on a Fedora 7
> system; however, I'm having difficulties.  First, I had to create
> an /etc/udev/rules.d/10-palm.rules file with the following content:
>
> BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld", KERNEL=="usbdev?.*", SYMLINK+="pilot",  MODE="0666"
>
> See the following udev bug for more details.
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250948
>
> When I attach the Te and press the hotsync button, then the /dev/pilot
> device is created which is linked to:
>
> 0 crw------- 1 gk4 root 189, 129 2007-08-05 19:46 /dev/bus/usb/002/002
>
> The command "/sbin/lsusb" returns:
>
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0830:0060 Palm, Inc. Palm Tungsten T / Zire 71
>
> The file /proc/bus/usb/devices contains:
>
> T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
> D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
> P:  Vendor=0830 ProdID=0060 Rev= 1.00
> S:  Manufacturer=Palm, Inc.
> S:  Product=Palm Handheld
> S:  SerialNumber=PalmSN12345678
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
> I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 4 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=visor
> E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
>
> The command "/sbin/lsmod | grep usbserial" returns:
>
> usbserial  35753  1 visor
>
> When using gnome-pilot settings for the first time, then I set:
>
> name: cradle
> type: usb
> timeout: 2
> device: /dev/pilot
> speed: 57600
> owner: gk4
> pda id: 500
>
> However, the initial sync never returns and I must cancel the setup.
>
> The command "/usr/bin/pilot-debugsh /dev/pilot" returns:
>
> Unable to connect
>
> The jpilot.i386 0:0.99.9-3.fc7 returns:
>
> pi_bind error: /dev/pilot Invalid argument
> Check your serial port and settings
> Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND
> Finished
>
> Reference info:
>
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO.html
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> George (gk4)
>
>
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George N. White III <aa056 chebucto ns ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia