Access to Palm Tungsten E USB

[Joe]

I'm using Mandrake 9.1 .  /dev/usb is an empty directory, not a device 
file on my machine, so that doesn't work.

Joe

Lou Townsend wrote:

> 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
>>
>

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