Subject: Re: Palm USB Sync -- still not working
From: Joe Buczek (joe_buczek@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 22:41:06 MST
I have been in similar USB-serial-adapter hell myself. Mine is a
Keyspan PDA adapter I'm trying to get working with a Palm Vx and an
iBook2.
I checked the Keyspan web site and there are driver updates to
support my adapter that I need to try out. These were not in the
recent 2.4.17 kernel tarball. No amount of "jiggering" anything,
hardware or software yielded results for me, so its on to trying a
newer driver.
While looking at the 2.4.17 source (I should mention I'm running
stock YDL 2.1, which is kernel 2.4.10-12a), I diff'ed the
belkin_sa.c file against the newer source and there is a very small
change regarding how it shuts down potential in-progress transfers
and transactions upon close(). If you've seen crashes, this might
be for you.
One thing I didn't see in your original post was whether you were
making sure the baud rates on the Palm and (??? make/model)
computer were the same. You need to do something like 'stty -F
/dev/pilot 57600' or set the environment variable PILOTRATE, like
'export PILOTRATE=57600' for tools like pilot-xfer. Obviously, you
also need to check that the Palm is set to agree with the rate you
use on the computer.
I hope you have better luck than I have had. I'm pretty sure the
updated driver source from the Keyspan web site is going to be
worth trying for me. YMMV.
Cheers and Good Luck,
--Joe
--- Stephanie Bryant <steph@scottrell.com> wrote:
> OK, I posted about a week ago about not getting my Palm IIIc to
> sync
> over a Belkin F5103 USB/Serial adapter.
>
> I have tried rmmod and modprobing the "usbserial" and "belkin_sa"
> in
> every combination I can think of.
>
> I have chmod 766'd the device (/dev/pilot, which is a hard link
> to
> /dev/ttyUSB0, as well as /dev/ttyUSB0).
>
> I have tried pressing the hotsync button before AND after
> entering the
> "pilot-xfer -l" command.
>
> I have installed pilot-link .9.5, hoping that would help.
>
> The results I am getting (every time):
> The Belkin adapter light starts blinking, indicating it's
> attempting to
> send the information.
> "Please press the HotSync button now..." appears in the terminal
> window
> That message stay there until I CTRL+C it, long after the Palm
> has timed
> out its syncing attempt.
>
> What am I missing? /sbin/lsmod produces this:
>
> Module Size Used by
> dmasound_pmac 42896 0
> i2c-core 14864 0 [dmasound_pmac]
> dmasound_core 13296 0 [dmasound_pmac]
> soundcore 5264 3 [dmasound_core]
> belkin_sa 6896 0
> usbserial 20336 0 [belkin_sa]
>
> Should there be something listed here that isn't? Am I missing a
> driver?
> Where would I find one?
>
> Any help is gratefully and eternally appreciated. If I can get
> this to
> work well enough so that I understand it, I will DEFINITELY write
> the
> missing how-to for Palm syncing on YDL!
>
> --
> Stephanie Cottrell Bryant
>
> steph@scottrell.com http://www.scottrell.com
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>
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