[wellylug] Palm pilot USB hotsync problems

JP jumbophut at yahoo.co.in
Sun Mar 7 13:58:48 NZDT 2004


 --- Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote: 
> The following output was obtained following a full
> reboot of my PC and nothing 
> plugged into the usb ports:
> 
> <snip>

It appears your OS is setting up USB, but not
detecting  the device (Acer).

You need two things:

1) Some sort of hotplug daemon to detect when a new
USB device is connected.  This is actually called
hotplug on my Debian machine -- the script to run it
is in /etc/init.d.  Installation is as simple as
apt-get hotplug on Debian; I can't speak for other
distros etc.  Strictly speaking, this is not required,
but it is a PITA to manually load drivers every time
you plug the device in.

2) An appropriate driver for the device.  This is the
tricky part.  For my digital camera, I can just use
usb-storage (as root, 'modprobe usb-storage' will do
this manually), which doesn't enable the full
functionality of the camera, but lets me transfer
files on and off.  With the Acer, I don't know what to
use.  Maybe one of the serial adaptor drivers, then
hope jpilot recognises the port as a serial port after
that?  Perhaps search Google with make and model for
the right one.  

You'll know you've done the right thing (or at least
are getting close) when a number other than 001 shows
up in /proc/bus/usb.

I don't go to the Hutt meetings, but I'm sure someone
there can help.  The site I referred to in my last
mail is extremely useful -- you might want to take a
printout/saved version of the HowTo along for others
to refer to.

Best of luck.

Cheers
Tony

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