Hi all, I recently got my palm pilot working on SuSE 9.3 (a rule for it in udev's configuration was all it took). Unfortunately, last night in that typical "but I didn't do anything" situation, it stopped working :( Tracing it as far as I've been able, I've determined that the /dev/pilot device is no longer being created when I press the hotsync button, and the reason for that (presumably) is that the USB system is failing to recognize the device at that point. When it works, I get entries in /proc/bus/usb/devices showing the USB device. Today I don't :( There are other devices in my usb/devices file (after a reboot) and I've tried plugging the cradle into two different USB connections on my machine (one front, the other rear--hoping maybe they were different controllers or channels or some such) but still I see nothing. I haven't been able to try the palm cradle and device on any other machine yet, though obviously I need to do that to rule out an actual hardware failure. Meantime, are there any more suggestions or ideas for gathering debug info, or any information about how the USB system works that might help me track down what suddenly changed? TIA Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
On Thursday 10 November 2005 9:53 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
Tracing it as far as I've been able, I've determined that the /dev/pilot device is no longer being created when I press the hotsync button, and the reason for that (presumably) is that the USB system is failing to recognize the device at that point. /dev/pilot is normally a symlink. On SuSE 10, you can use /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 depending on the palm device you have. These are created when you press the hot sync button. I posted that in another thread yesterday. Connect your palm device,, press the hot sync, then run the dmesg command. It should show something like: visor 3-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
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Hmm, never came across this before, but as might be guessed, it was not SuSE's fault. I did a soft reset on my palm and it now syncs again. Unfortunately, somewhere in the process it has done wild and crazy things to my calendar, somehow causing a helical kind of shift in all my appointments, and replicating them far into the future. Ah well, at least the basic idea is working again. Thanks Jerry, Cheers, Simon --- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> wrote:
On Thursday 10 November 2005 9:53 am, Simon Roberts wrote:
Tracing it as far as I've been able, I've determined that the /dev/pilot device is no longer being created when I press the hotsync button, and the reason for that (presumably) is that the USB system is failing to recognize the device at that point. /dev/pilot is normally a symlink. On SuSE 10, you can use /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 depending on the palm device you have. These are created when you press the hot sync button. I posted that in another thread yesterday. Connect your palm device,, press the hot sync, then run the dmesg command. It should show something like: visor 3-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
-- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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