Francisco,

I am currently using a visor with the USB connection.  The only
difference should be the kernel module that gets loaded.  Check your
modules.conf and see if a usb driver is being loaded.  For my chipset
(intel based mb) I have:
alias usb-interface usb-uhci
also check in /stc/sysconfig/usb and see if
USB=yes
then check to see if the usb service is running as root
service usb status
if all is well you should be able to put the palm in and hit sync.
It probably will not connect to anything, but then do a dmesg and see if
a usb connection is made with a unregistered device.  Then try loading
the module for the palm device, I think it will just be m505.  Then sync
again and dmesg to check if the device is recognized this time.  If it
is, you are almost there.

You can check things out from a command line:
pilot-xfer /dev/usb/ttyUSB? -l
? = 1 on my machine

With usb you need to hit sync on the device first and then run this
command.  If the connection is made you can point jpilot right to that
device or you can make a link to /dev/pilot as I do.  Also, be warned
permissions can come into play here, so you may be able to do it as root
by not a user until you fix that.  I did a chmod 666 on the device to
get it to work.

Hopefully, I didn't leave anything out since I am typing this quickly
before I head off to work.

Jerry

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 04:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Dear folks,
> I gare my Christmas auto-present; a wonderfull Palm m505 ;-).
> 
> The installation in windows98 was perfect but....., you know!; I prefer
> to 
> use our favourite OS: linux, specially the Mandrake distribution.
> 
> Wel, jpilot seems to run fine, but.... unfortunately is more apropriate
> to 
> use a palm conected in a serial port and in the original package the
> palm 
> came with a USB conection.
> 
> I can get a serial conection but spending more money :-(.
> 
> In fact is seems that a USB conection is possible, but I don't know how
> to do 
> that; perhaps I need to erase the /dev/pilot device and create a new one 
> (that was created automatically) pointing to an usb device????; actually
> I 
> have not idea about what to do and how to do that.
> 
> Could anyone help me?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance for the comments; yours sincerely
> 
> Francisco Alcaraz
> Murcia (Spain)
> 
> 
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