Palm is found, but not working: SYNC_ERROR_READSYSINFO

markusk21 · Last edited by markusk21 on Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:51 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello,
I have a Palm Vx (same problem with Palm m105) connected to my serial Port.
It seems to be found but does not work. I tried several things:
New Kernel (currently: gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8-gentoo-r

pilot-xfer:

xbmodder · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 404

did you link you ttyUSB0 and 1 to /dev/palm?

markusk21 · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

Yes i did.
/dev/palm is linked to /dev/tts/0
/dev/pilot is linked to /dev/tts/0

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Are you using udev or devfs?
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markusk21 · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject:

To be honest:
I don't know. how do I test?

markusk21 · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject:

sys-fs/udev
Latest version available: 030
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 374 kB

Think this is the answer.

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I think this is the key. I will caveat this by saying that I am on the verge of not knowing what I'm talking about, but I managed to get my Handspring Visor to sync with Evolution once on my udev Gentoo laptop. Here's what's different from the setup under devfs:

1. Regardless of what dmesg is telling you, your Palm device will show up under /dev/tts. On my system, it shows up under /dev/tts/USB1. I linked /dev/pilot to /dev/tts/USB1 but in my gnome-pilot settings I pointed it directly to /dev/tts/USB1.

2. If you're wondering why you don't see /dev/tts/USB1, it's because /dev/tts/USB1 won't show up until you hit the Hotsync button on your cradle. After hotsyncing finishes, it disappears.

3. Make sure your user is in the usb group. When /dev/tts/USB1 gets created, it's under the usb group.

4. I also added this rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:

markusk21 · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

I just emerged udev and running, exept xorg.
Working on it.

I tried coldsync -v -p /dev/tts/0 -t serial -mb ~/palmbackup/
with the same Result as above.

Thank you wilburpan for your tip, but i have no usb-palm but it is connected to the serial port.

But I am still fighting with the udev.

markusk21 · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject:

OK,
udev is running now (i think)
But still the same result:

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Try this:

1. If you have a Nautilus/Konqueror type program, navigate to /dev/tts. Or open a terminal and "cd /dev/tts".

2. Do a soft reset on your Palm using the little paper clip button.

3. Open a new terminal and use coldsync like you were doing.

4. Then go back your file manager or to your first terminal and start doing "ls -l" repeatedly to see if a new node shows up. On my machine, /dev/tts has 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in it, but when I hotsync, USB0 and USB1 automatically appear in this directory.

5. finally, check dmesg to see what information that gives you.
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markusk21 · Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject:

USB with my palm on the serial port?

But something changed:

markusk21 · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:47 am Post subject:

Hi again,
i tried the cd-Linux knoppix 3.6 and the palm-pilot works.

but setserial sais:

markusk21 · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:59 am Post subject: [solved]

This worked:

setserial /dev/pilot uart 16550A

With the other uart the palm-sync runs.