[ale] syncing a palm via serial/usb device?

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:46:11PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:

>>usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Cli? 3.5
>>visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor, Palm m50x, Treo, Sony Cli? driver v1.7
> 
> 
> Was there anything after this?  You should see something similar to the
> following:

Nope. :(

> 
> Feb 18 10:47:53 jasond kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor / Treo / Palm
> 4.0 / Cli
> ? 4.x: Number of ports: 2
> Feb 18 10:47:53 jasond kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor / Treo / Palm
> 4.0 / Cli
> ? 4.x: port 1, is for Generic use and is bound to ttyUSB0
> Feb 18 10:47:53 jasond kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor / Treo / Palm
> 4.0 / Cli
> ? 4.x: port 2, is for HotSync use and is bound to ttyUSB1
> Feb 18 10:47:53 jasond kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor / Treo /
> Palm 4.0 /
>  Cli? 4.x converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
>  Feb 18 10:47:53 jasond kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor / Treo /
>  Palm 4.0 /
>   Cli? 4.x converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> 
> Note that the palm uses 2 ports: one for HotSync and one for Generic
> (whatever that means).  You want to use the one that's bound for HotSync
> use.

I do not see a reference to two ports.  This really doesn't make sense 
to me, because ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 are two different physical hardware 
ports.  I've moved it to another port, I still get ttyUSB0.  I'm sure 
it's just taking the first available.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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