Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Joseph Loo <jloo@xxxxxxx>]

I have the same problem syncing with a plam pilot on RS232. port. The 
first quesion that needs to be asked is it the 64 bit or 32 bit version. 
I had used the 64 bit and there is a problem. It seems that the person 
who wrote jpilot has some 54 bit issues a couple months ago.

David McMillan wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded my systems (home and work) to SuSE9.3.
> > In the past, I had updated udev, but I specifically did not do that. 
> > One thing you need to do is to either place yourself into the uucp 
> > group or set the permissions to /dev/usb/ttyUSB1
> >
> > I tried this at home last night after I completed the install. (I 
> > always do new installs to an empty partition so I can roll back). The 
> > first thing I did was dlpsh -p /dev/usb/ttyUSB1
> > Then I pressed the sync button, and the palm was detected 
> > successfully. I then synced up with my Treo650. 
>
>     I've never seen that command before, but I tried it just for the heck
> of it (as root, so I didn't bother with permissions).  And darned if
> it didn't work!  Another troubleshooting tool for the arsenal -- thank 
> you very much.
>
> > Same here at work. Note that the Palm does not always come up as ttyUSB1
> > Also, the Treo used ttyUSB1 where some of the older palms use ttyUSB0.
>
>     Interesting.  My Clie shows up as *both*.  The relevant portion of 
> dmesg:
> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
> usb 1-1: Product: Palm Handheld
> usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc.
> drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
> Handspring Visor / Palm OS
> drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
> Sony Clie 3.5
> drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
> Sony Clie 5.0
> usb 1-1: palm_os_4_probe - error -32 getting connection info
> visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected
> usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> usbcore: registered new driver visor
> drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver v2.1
> usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
>
>
>     Using the dlpsh command with ttyUSB1 works, USB0 doesn't.  Something
> to do with the two different versions of Clie shown above?  But dmesg
> doesn't indicate which one associates to which USB port... <headscratch>

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Joseph Loo
jloo@xxxxxxx