Cannot detect palm [SOLVED]

bumpert · Last edited by bumpert on Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:42 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi i try to detect my palm on my gentoo without succes
i follow these steps: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-pda.xml

but i can't find the palm

thx
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adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

What model, and it is USB or serial?

For USB, the palm isn't detected by the computer unless the hotsync program is currently trying to connect from the Palm.

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:30 am Post subject:

Palm m505

Usb

i tried to run some program like coldsync but coldsync didn;t seems to find my palm even if i started the sync

thx for help
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Nermal · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 259 Location: UK

you enabled the serial converter in the kernel and made sure the permissions are ok on /dev/usb/tts/1 and 0 ? (if you're using devfs)

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

Nermal · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 259 Location: UK

anything in dmesg about usb, and what does lspci give you ?

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject:

adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

Here's a collection of ideas. I'm not claiming that it will work if you follow this protocol, but it basically hits all the major things that can go wrong along the way:

-1) while the palm is trying to connect, run

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

ahaha man i think it's working, not completly i need to find how really sync cause it seems to only list my files... and need to make this working with jpiilot but here what i have when i press my hotsync button and perform pilot-xfer -ls

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject:

humm i forgot, i'll try with jpilot to find something, cause i had these message when i tried to sync

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:19 pm Post subject:

oups ls is for list data
i will sync correctly if i put the good arguments, lol
only need to find what happen with jpilot now

thx
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bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject:

now the palm-xfer work for backing up my plam
and jpilot work too, don't know what change

now only have the automate jpilot that don't seems to work, where can i see if it have some error?

thx a lot man that make linux alot better for me

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Nermal · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 259 Location: UK

By the way, I doubt you have a bad sector on your hard disk. I imagine hdc is your cd / dvd drive and its trying to read media that isn't there (ie: no cd / dvd in the drive)

bumpert · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject:

oh you have reason, lol, ouf... no i had problem read a cdrom yesterday
thx

do you have a hint on how can i see where is the problem with this line:

adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

Well, "YOU" should be your user name (in my case "abe"), not "YOU" and you may want to run jpilot-sync instead of jpilot, in case you're not in X. You also appear to be missing an end-quote. Try this, literally (except for YOU):

bumpert · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:33 am Post subject:

i followed the exact line by changing YOU by my username and that didn't seems to work...
thx
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adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

hmm...

0) did you remember to do killall -HUP devfsd

1) can you run jpilot-sync manually, with this line commented-out?

2) does ~/.jpilot/jpilot.log say any errors?

bumpert · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:08 am Post subject:

adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

Those errors suggest to me that it can't write to the directory its looking for (by default ~/.jpilot, I think)... are you sure that exists and the backups are going there?

bumpert · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:34 am Post subject:

the folder exist, and the backup is in this folder ~/.jpilot/backup when i backup with JPilot in gui mode

thx
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adsmith · Veteran Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 1386 Location: NC, USA

hmmph.. that's bizarre...

Hmm.. I'm clueless.. maybe ask the jpilot people? http://www.jpilot.org/

bumpert · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:44 am Post subject:

ok thx a lot, i'll let the topic open if another people have any ideas
thx a lot man

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bumpert · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

nobody? ionly want to backup my palm automatically if i rpess the hotsync

thx
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bumpert · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:42 am Post subject:

ok it's not a good problem, i was able to backup my plam so it's ok even if it's not automatically... thx, so i close the topic
i'm leaving this topic
thx
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