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Subject: Re: [Synce-devel] multiple devices at one time Date: Tuesday 25 September 2007 From: Volker Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Patrick, you can force vdccm to use the assigned device ip-addresses as their name instead of their device-name by starting vdccm with the switch -i. SynCE-KDE should work with that switch to vdccm as expected. This should solve at least one of your problems. regards voc On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Scott Gifford wrote: > "Patrick Shirkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > I have made some progress in terms of getting the system to automatically > > recognise a device when it is connected but I have been unable to get > > more than one device to be accessible at the same time. > > Hi Patrick, > > I did some similar work, with about 20 devices. I used these patches > to the startup scripts to get the devices to come up automatically, > which I found essential to everything working smoothly: > > > http://whereabouts.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?id=whereabouts_pda >_setup&cache=cache&media=synce-serial-0.9.1-sg.tar.gz > > They will only work with 128 devices right now, but some simple fixes > to IP address calculations should fix that. > > I also had to upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.15 (which was new at the > time); earlier versions would lock up if I plugged in 20 devices at > once. > > I connected everything through a series of USB hubs, resulting on one > cable to plug into my laptop. > > Beyond that, a standard vdccm did the trick. > > > The devices that I am working with all have the same device name and > > product name. I believe this is a major obstacle. > > Yes, that's likely to be a problem. IIRC, the main problem is just in > the way that vdccm names files; if the devices all have the same name, > their configuration files will conflict. > > If you can think of something else to name the files based on, it > would be fairly straightforward to fix this. You could probably even > use the IP address (which should always be unique), and create a > symlink from the device name to the address for backwards > compatibility. > > Good luck! > > ----ScottG. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > SynCE-Devel mailing list > SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
