USB and Palm connection problem

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote:
% I went out and got a new palm, the cheapest they have, the Zire. No
% backlight so that was a mistake.

Whoops.

% ANYWAY, my old palm worked great with the cradle on the serial port. Progress
% now makes me use the usb port to sync this thing. There's the rub. I cannot
% connect to my Palm. (Each such progressive change usually means 5 to 8 hours
% of aggravation, but I digress.)
% 
% Here is what I have done:
% 
% Plugged the Zire into my usb0 and usb1 (I hope that is the right numbering
% system for these ports. I have two and tried both.) Here is what
% proc/bus/usb/devices shows after I press the sync button:

I had to install the latest pilot-link. Also had to remember to
load the visor (Handspring) module and a couple of other tweaks.
IIRC, this doc was quite helpful: http://pilot-link.org/README.usb.
As counterintuitive as it seems, you need the visor.o module in
order to do USB syncing. And, for reasons that continue to elude 
me, it ended up using /dev/ttyUSB1 (which get created for you when
the modules load).

Kurt
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