Faisal Islam wrote: > Hello Al, > > Would you please try the following and see what happens? > > 1. Connect your Treo to your computer via USB and turn it on > 2. Open a Shell and log in as root (type in su and the root pwd) > 3. Type in the following and see if visor shows up > lsmod | grep visor > -- if it does, proceed to step 5 > -- if not, proceed to step 4 > 4. Type the following in the shell prompt > modprobe visor > -- you should not get errors > -- go to step 3 above > 5. Type the following in the shell prompt > tail -f /var/log/messages > 6. Press the HotSync button on your Treo and check the output in step 5 > above. This will show you what the computer sees. The following is an > example: > > May 6 07:43:49 localhost kernel: visor 1-1:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm > OS converter detected > May 6 07:43:49 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS > converter now attached to ttyUSB0 > May 6 07:43:49 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS > converter now attached to ttyUSB1 > > 7. Type in /dev/ttyUSB1 in your J-Pilot preference tab under serial > port and click OK. > > 8. Re-load J-Pilot and cancel Hotsynch on the Treo (from step 6 above). > Press hotsynch on the Treo, wait 2 seconds, press hotsynch on J-Pilot. > You should here the device beep and start to synchronize. > > 9. If this doesn't work, let us know what happened and we will try to > trouble shoot. If this works, send money to Judd Montgomery. > > Good luck, my friend! > > Faisal in Dallas TX USA > > > Hello Faisal. When I reset Preferences to /dev/ttyUSB3 and reloaded J-Pilot the Pilot still did not synch. From your reading of my lsmod, should I have set the port to /dev/ttyUSB1? I'm happy that jpilot.rc seems stable in the sense that the user and user_id are not being wiped out. Larry
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