As you correctly guessed I am trying to get a Palm m500 to sync.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>
> > dmesg shows
> > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
> > usb.c: registered new driver hub
> > usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
> > usb.c: registered new driver serial
> > usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor
> > but I see no device being bound to /dev/ttyUSB at boot time ? However if I
> > ls -al /dev/pilot I get
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 20 20:47 /dev/pilot -> /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> As you probably already know, the device is not created in /dev UNTIL
> you hit the hotsync button on the cradle. You will not see it at boot time,
> because it doesn't exist yet. I've been sync'ing my Visor for several months,
> without problems, both to native USB over the Visor cradle (USB cradle and
> serial cradle) as well as through the serial cradle and serial cable over my
> USB->Serial Keyspan adapter. Not a single problem (except Hugh hasn't updated
> the Keyspan driver to include >9600 support).
>
> > I created /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 and linked them both in turn to
> > /dev/pilot without changing which USB hardware port I had plugged into but
> > in both cases I got the same result.
>
> What is it you're trying to do? Get an m50x device working? Or a
> visor? Greg and I hacked together (well, he did the work, I just compiled and
> tested it) patches to get a connection working with the m50x device. We're
> still not getting conversation though, but that's not far off.
>
> How can we help with your current problem?
>
>
>
> /d
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