[jp] how to sync my palm on my ubuntu-based distro

I've been following this thread.  When I first started using jpilot, I 
was using a Handspring Visor, but have since moved over to a Palm Treo 
600.  I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 as well.  I've found that different hardware 
requires different entries in the udev rules.  For my Treo 600 I have a 
file named

/etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules


It contains a single line which reads:

BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB[13579]", 
SYMLINK="pilot"

The key string here is

      Palm Handheld

You need to discover what the key string is for your device.  It's a 
little tricky, but can be done if you follow what I've got below.

When I go to sync my Treo 600, I connect it via a USB cable.  I first 
hit the switch on the Treo 600 to initiate the sync, THEN I hit the sync 
button in jpilot.   When I hit the switch on the Treo 600, a directory 
with a bunch of stuff gets created in

/sys/bus/usb/devices

So connect up your Palm device via your USB cable and hit the sync 
switch on it.  Then do an ls -l on /sys/bus/usb/devices

You should see something like:

$ ls -l /sys/bus/usb/devices
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 1-0:1.0 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/usb1/1-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 2-0:1.0 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb2/2-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-05 15:58 2-1 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb2/2-1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-05 15:58 2-1:1.0 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 3-0:1.0 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.2/usb3/3-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 4-0:1.0 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.3/usb4/4-0:1.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 usb1 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/usb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 usb2 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 usb3 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.2/usb3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2006-09-03 22:40 usb4 -> 
../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.3/usb4


I did this today (9/5)and note that there's only two items there with 
today's timestamp.   The first one, which is a link called:

2-1

is for a directory which is created just for the time that the sync 
effort exists.   In that directory is a file called:

product

If I were to cat that file, I'd get the text string which is needed in 
the rules file.

$cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1/product
Palm Handheld



I didn't see where you named your Palm device.  I know that this string 
was different between my Palm Treo 600 and my old Handspring Visor.

I hope this helps.

Russ