[ale] Sync a Palm Tungsten T5 with Linux - Update

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Ok, new plan.  After much hemming and hawing, and much trying to get the 
USB option to work while looking at my bluetooth adapter, I've decided 
to use bluetooth instead.  Believe it or not I've gotten *MUCH* further, 
but I'm still having some trouble.  Here's what's happend thus far:

Tried the USB route, wrote the udev rules, read the udev docs, but just 
didn't seem to get it.  Ended up hosing up the OS (it was a bit quirky 
anyway, I'm not too impressed with FC4 x86_64 at this point).  So, I 
decided to start from scratch, and loaded FC3 x86 back on the box.  It 
seems to be a lot happier now. 

On to the Palm -> bluetooth.  It's worth noting here that I'm not trying 
it with the Tungsten T5 anymore.  I had a Treo 650 given to me, so I'm 
using that now.  I've got the desktop and the treo paired (thanks to the 
article on linuxjournal.com and gurulabs), but I can't seem to get 
sync.  I'm using XFCE and Evolution with gnome-pilot.  I've also tried 
it with kpilot and jpilot with the same results.  My sync app is setup 
to use /dev/rfcomm0.  When I start the sync app, the palm does it's beep 
thing (sees the connection), and the sync app tells me to press 
hotsync.  I wait for the connection dialog to go away on the palm and 
click on the 'hotsync' button on the screen, but I get an error stating :

"Unable to initiate HotSync operation because the port is in use by 
another application"

Here's what hcidump reports:

[nathan at l64-wks ~]$ hcidump
HCIDump - HCI packet analyzer ver 1.11
device: hci0 snap_len: 1028 filter: 0xffffffff
 > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
 > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 10
 > HCI Event: Connect Complete (0x03) plen 11
 > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 6
 > HCI Event: Disconn Complete (0x05) plen 4
 > HCI Event: Connect Request (0x04) plen 10
 > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
 > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 10
 > HCI Event: Connect Complete (0x03) plen 11
 > HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 6
 > HCI Event: Command Status (0x0f) plen 4
 > HCI Event: Disconn Complete (0x05) plen 4



Here are the permissions on /dev/rfcomm0:
crw-rw-rw-  1 nathan root 216, 0 Oct  8 18:07 rfcomm0

Anyone actually got this working?  Got any ideas on what I'm missing? 

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

>Has anyone on the list had any luck with syncing a Palm Tungsten T5 with 
>Linux?  I would be willing to use Evolution or Kontact as my PIM, and am 
>not tied to KDE or Gnome.  I've dug around, and tried the various 
>syncing tools (gpilot and ksync, I believe), but can't seem to get all 
>of the various pieces talking.  Below is what I've been able to figure 
>out thus far:
>
> - USB is working (I have an iPod that I use as [basically] a huge 
>thumbdrive, and can mount / umount it).  I also have a 250GB external 
>USB harddrive for when the iPod isn't big enough.
> - I can tail /var/log/messages, and see the following when I connect 
>the device and press the 'sync' button: (see log snippet below)
> - Both USB devices seem to be owned by root
> - Both USB devices are only present when the Palm is connected (so, if 
>I change the permissions, disconnect, and reconnect, perms are back to 
>root only)
>
>
>Has anyone had any luck with one of these neat but expensive (and 
>seemingly useless, if you use Linux) PDA's?
>
>** Begin Log Snippet **
>Sep 17 14:09:30 l64-wks kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup
>Sep 17 14:09:30 l64-wks kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using 
>ohci_hcd and address 2
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
>Serial support registered for Generic
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: usbcore: registered new driver 
>usbserial_generic
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
>Serial Driver core v2.0
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
>Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm OS
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
>Serial support registered for Sony Clie 3.5
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
>Serial support registered for Sony Clie 5.0
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: visor 3-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm 
>OS converter detected
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
>converter now attached to ttyUSB0
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
>converter now attached to ttyUSB1
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: usbcore: registered new driver visor
>Sep 17 14:09:31 l64-wks kernel: drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB 
>HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver v2.1
>** End Log Snippet **
>
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