USB and Palm connection problem

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I got the kernel source for 2.4.19 off the lindows click and run site.
I tried to edit the visor.c and visor.h files as suggested in the link below:

     http://snovae.in2p3.fr/ycopin/soft/zire.html

Now, that was for kernel 2.4.10, and the visor.c file has changed quite a
bit since then. However, I did the patches he suggested, and more!, and get
this error code when I compile it:
     visor.c:218: warning: `palm_zire_id_table' defined but not used

Now, the new module insmod's fine, but I get the exact same error message
as before, that is:

etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 830/70/100

SO, I went and got the kernel sources from click and run for 2.4.20,
which supports the Zire. I compiled the new visor.c against the kernel
2.4.19 sources, and got no errors during compile. The new visor.o module
insmod'ed just fine. However, I still get an error message when I try
to connect to my Zire, although the error is a bit different now.

     usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for `
     visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor, Palm m50x, Sony Clii driver v1.6
     kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 31
     usbserial.c: descriptors matched, but endpoints did not <---DIFFERENT ERROR:
     usb.c: USB device 31 (vend/prod 0x830/0x70) is not claimed by any active driver.
     /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 830/70/100


Any suggestions welcome.

My next steps in order of preference will be to:
1. Install kernel 2.4.20.
2. Buy a supported palm under 2.4.19.
3. Use XP.

Joel


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:41:30PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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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