Access to Palm Tungsten E USB

[Lou Townsend]

Joe:

Try: "ls /dev/usb"
If present do as root: "link /dev/usb /dev/pilot"
K-Pilot should then work in it's default configuration.

Lou Townsend

Joe wrote:
> I am evaluating a Palm Tungsten E.  It has a USB cable and works fine in 
> Windoze 98 for hot-syncing, etc.
> 
> How do I get it to work in Linux?
> 
> I tried kpilot and got:
> 
> Version: KPilot 4.3.9 (BRANCH)
> Version: pilot-link 0.11.7
> Version: KDE 3.1.0
> Version: Qt 3.1.1
> 
> HotSync Log
> 
> 12:31:27  Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device 
> uses DevFS.
> 12:31:28  Trying to open device...
> 12:31:28  Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry)
> 
> /dev/pilot does not exist.
> 
> I did some googling and it pointed me to /dev/ttyUSB1, but that doesn't 
> exist either.
> 
> lsmod shows some USB modules, but not usbserial.
> 
> What do I try next?
> 
> Here is my lsmod:
> 
> [root at localhost tmp]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
> ppp_deflate             4408   0  (autoclean)
> zlib_inflate           21156   0  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
> zlib_deflate           21144   0  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
> bsd_comp                5336   0  (autoclean)
> ppp_async               9216   0  (autoclean)
> ppp_generic            24060   0  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp 
> ppp_async]
> slhc                    6564   0  (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
> binfmt_misc             7020   1
> lp                      8096   0
> parport_pc             25096   1
> parport                34176   1  [lp parport_pc]
> es1371                 29000   0
> soundcore               6276   0  [es1371]
> ac97_codec             12488   0  [es1371]
> gameport                3316   0  [es1371]
> nfsd                   74256   0  (autoclean)
> af_packet              14952   0  (autoclean)
> sr_mod                 16920   0  (autoclean)
> 3c59x                  29584   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> tulip                  44032   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> nls_iso8859-1           3516   2  (autoclean)
> nls_cp850               4316   2  (autoclean)
> vfat                   11820   2  (autoclean)
> fat                    37944   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
> supermount             15296   2  (autoclean)
> ide-scsi               11280   0
> ide-cd                 33856   0  (autoclean)
> cdrom                  31648   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
> floppy                 55132   0  (autoclean)
> usb-storage            72952   0
> scsi_mod              103284   3  [sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage]
> usbvision              77872   0
> videodev                7872   1  [usbvision]
> i2c-algo-usb            2844   1  [usbvision]
> i2c-core               21192   0  [i2c-algo-usb]
> usb-uhci               24652   0  (unused)
> usbcore                72992   1  [usb-storage usbvision usb-uhci]
> rtc                     8060   0  (autoclean)
> ext3                   59916   3
> jbd                    38972   3  [ext3]
> [root at localhost tmp]# lsmod | most
>