Thank you once more David for the time you are spending trying to help me! I am conscious of how precious time is and appreciate your efforts accordingly! David A. Desrosiers wrote: > I think your sync problems are MUCH more fundamental than what we're > making of them here. Let's forget everything you've done, and start from > scratch, from the bottom up and see where things begin to fail. > > You're doing this using the standard USB path, right? Not using libusb > or any of the "new" methods to sync? (Bluetooth, PPP, libusb, and so > on). > That's right: standard USB path using a cable directly attached to a USB port on my laptop. > When you do nothing, Palm uncradled, and type 'ps -afux | grep -i > pilot', do you see anything peculiar? > With Palm uncradled, but the cradle connected to the laptop, this is what I get: root at eamann-laptop:/home/eamann# ps -afux | grep -i pilot Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html root 6765 0.0 0.1 2808 768 pts/0 S+ 20:58 0:00 \_ grep -i pilot eamann 6146 0.1 1.8 47288 9712 ? S 20:47 0:00 jpilot > When you do an 'lsmod | grep visor', do you see the visor module > loaded? > root at eamann-laptop:/home/eamann# lsmod | grep visor visor 19724 0 usbserial 32616 1 visor usbcore 130304 6 visor,usbserial,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd > Can you rmmod and insmod the visor module manually? Or do you get an > error when you try to do so? > rmod and modprobe seem to work, but insmod didn't: root at eamann-laptop:/home/eamann# rmmod visor root at eamann-laptop:/home/eamann# insmod visor insmod: can't read 'visor': No such file or directory root at eamann-laptop:/home/eamann# modprobe visor root at eamann-laptop:/home/eamann# > Are you using your Palm through a USB port on the computer itself > (physically attached to the motherboard), or are you going through a USB > hub? > Cable to USB port on the side of the laptop, presumably into the motherboard. > Let's start there, and diagnose further.. > This evening I opened JP, did modprobe visor, pressed the button on the Zire and then on JP and got this message. As you can see, there doesn't seem to be a user name. But in File / Install user, my name is there. Syncing on device /dev/ttyUSB1 Press the HotSync button now **************************************** Username is "" User ID is 65536 lastSyncPC = 0 This PC = 413396775 Doing a slow sync. Syncing DatebookDB Error reading appinfo block for AddressDB Syncing AddressDB slow_sync_application: Unable to open file: AddressDB sync_categories: Unable to open file: ToDoDB Syncing ToDoDB slow_sync_application: Unable to open file: ToDoDB sync_categories: Unable to open file: MemoDB Syncing MemoDB slow_sync_application: Unable to open file: MemoDB ReadDBList returned = -204 palmos_error = 0 dlp_strerror is No error Finished. Best wishes and thanks! Eamann > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > jpilot mailing list > jpilot at jpilot.org > http://www.jpilot.org/mailman/listinfo/jpilot > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/attachments/20061203/e6b5e231/attachment.htm
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