On Friday 08 July 2005 05:37, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 00:38, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > Can you at least rmmod visor and usb_serial (and modprobe them if
> > needed), then repeat the tests?

I've made some progress, so I'm on the right track, but .....

1 - I figured out why I was getting **seemingly** random device numbers and 
why some of them disappered and others didn't. When the Palm and pilot-xfer 
don't communicate, the Palm is usually the one to time-out and when that 
happens I stop pilot-xfer with Ctrl-Z. I discovered that in these cases, the 
pilot-xfer proccess is still running. Killing the proccess also kills the 
ttyUSB* devices that pilot-xfer seems to be holding on to. The cases when 
pilot-xfer timed out (or got a data error) didn't leave stray proccesses or 
devices.

2 - After discovering how to get rid of the extra processes and devices, rmmod 
worked and when I reconnected the USB cable, the modules and devices were 
correctly loaded.

3 - I did alot of experimenting (including connecting to different USB plug 
both with and without a hub). For some reason, out of abot 20 experiments I 
did in the past hour, most of the timed out on the Palm, but in 2 cases I got 
a dta error message from pilot-xfer. And more interesting - In 2 cases, 
pilot-xfer ACTUALLY WORKED. But I haven't been able to see any reason why on 
those 2 tries pilot-xfer DID talk to the Palm. 

I now intend to clean everything up and make a few more tries. I'll try to 
keep acurate records of what I do and see if the log entries can be of any 
help.









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Shlomo Solomon
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