Ok, so I've got a Palm IIIc (color) that worked some years ago, with much older software.
I had upgraded some time back, and my sync quit working. So, I upgraded again, to Debian 4.0, hoping that things would get better. OTHER things are very nice, but I still cannot get my Palm IIIc to sync with my Linux/Debian laptop. The charging cable I have has 2 ways to hook it up to the computer: 1 - using 9-pin serial 2 - using USB (which you need if you want to charge your Palm) When I connect the PDA via the DB9 serial to my laptop, start up hotsync on Palm, run kpilot, wait for it to say 'device link ready', then hit 'sync' on the Palm (with Local connection using direct serial) - Palm beeps and says 'Identifying user' then times out. Kpilot says 'Unable to read system information from Pilot' The above is with Kpilot configured to use /dev/ttyS0, which is where I have the PDA plugged in, at 9600 (No workarounds) So, I decide to try USB: Disconnect the DB9 from the laptop, change Pilot Device to 'usb:' (without the quotes, of course), and hit 'sync' on the Pilot. It says 'connecting with the desktop using direct serial' and goes no further. I look in /var/log/<interesting log files>, and I notice NOTHING relating to the USB port other than 'hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1' (and I see when I connected my USB mouse about 1/2 hour earlier. In other words, USB works, as I use it for my mouse and my memory stick and my ...). I look in /proc/bus/usb and see only things I expect there (3 hubs and the mouse). I had tried some stuff I found about fiddling with udev and putting visor into the blacklist (for modprobe and/or hotplug), so I tried that before the above usb attempt (actually, I've seen no difference between before and after trying different howtos. I even tried modprobe-ing visor (which loaded, but ddidn't seem to do anything else)... I tried IR once, but have no clue what I'm doing there, so gave up pretty fast. So - given that I want to hotsync my Palm IIIc (color) using Linux, using ANY of the above (serial, USB, IR), does anyone have any ideas/pointers_to_howtos/whatever? Thanks! rc ps - the above info is INTENDED to go to the gnome-pilot-list! Unfortunately, I have NO CONTROL over the stupid disclaimer below, which should NOT go out with this email, but which I cannot stop.. sorry about that, please ignore the below silly disclaimer: _______________________________________________ gnome-pilot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-pilot-list
