tungsten palm sync failures

GenKreton · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:54 am Post subject: tungsten palm sync failures

I own a palm pilot tungsten c and have had no luck syncing it with my gentoo so far and would really like to back my data up

I have read many guides to this and it is still not working.

I am running kernel 2.6.4 dev-sources. I have all the necessary usb stuff compiled in, usbserial, visor, the usbdevfs, and generic usb serial. I manually modprobe'd all the modules.

And just to get it working I am running it as root, just to void permission errors, once it runs as root I can go back and try as my user and find any permission errors.

when I press sync on the palm the kernel log spits this back

ozonator · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:22 am Post subject:

Have you tried /dev/ttyUSB1? According to the Palm device matrix that's where the Tungsten C should appear. If that device node doesn't exist, you may need to either (a) create it with '/bin/mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1' (from the pilot-link USB readme), or (b) check for /dev/usb/tts/1 if you're running devfsd.

Note, too, that for Palm devices over USB, you typically have to press the sync button on the device/cradle before running the sync on the Linux side (i.e., before /dev/usb/tts/1 appears).