USB and Palm connection problem

[Joel Hammer]

I think I have several problems of instant obsolescence.

My kernel is one too low (2.4.20 claims to support this Zire palm pilot.)
This is my kernel: Linux version 2.4.19 (root at khouks) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) 

I don't know if my version of pilot-link is uptodate enuf. I keep seeing
version .11 is needed. My version is stated 0.9.5.0-8. Can someone tell me
if my version is new enuf?

I don't know anything about devfs, and don't want to. But, I have this in
/proc/filesystems
          nodev   devfs

Does this mean I have it? And if so, does this mean I have to use some other
dev than /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 to point my jpilot to?

The most attractive idea is getting the visor.c and visor.h and patching
them. This sounds easy. Is there a place to get these modules without
loading the entire kernel? Lindows of course doesn't load the sources
with its distro. The problem they say is simple. The older kernel
sources simply don't have the vendor and product id's in its visor.c
and visor.h files.  Sounds simple to patch and recompile.

I tried to add the vendor and product numbers when I loaded usbserial, but,
this doesn't seem to have solved the problem. This is as far as I can get:

usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Palm 4.0
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clii 3.5
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clii 4.x
visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor, Palm m50x, Sony Clii driver v1.5
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 29
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 830/70/100

So, off to sleep. Tomorrow is another big day at work. Hopfully, I'll get
this solved without hosing my entire system.

Any comments/insights appreciated.

Joel


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:38:22AM -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> That means your kernel is too old to support the Zire.
> 
> On Thursday 10 April 2003 20:51, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I insmod'ed visor.o. Now I get a message saying that the device is not
> > claimed by any active driver. The reference you gave me says I need an
> > updated visor.c. Do I have to recompile this thing? I suppose so.
> >
> > I will have to sleep on this and go to my day job tomorrow before I can
> > spend more time on this.
> >
> > But, this is progress. At least I am learning a thing or two about usb.
> >
> > Thanks for the information.
> >
> > Joel
> 
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