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  • Larry Alkoff labradley at mindspring.com
    Tue May 6 09:40:46 EDT 2008

     

    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
    > 
    > 
    > 
    
    
    Faisal thanks very for your help.
    You obviously know the system pretty well.
    I followed your steps exactly and got some surprising results
    that suggest maybe I want to set /dev/ttyUSB3 in the J-Pilot preferences.
    
    Larry Austin TX
    
    May  6 08:34:32 kinda kernel: [1643030.438476] usb 4-1: new full speed 
    USB device using uhci_hcd and address 38
    May  6 08:34:32 kinda kernel: [1643030.610500] usb 4-1: configuration #1 
    chosen from 1 choice
    May  6 08:34:32 kinda kernel: [1643030.615422] visor 4-1:1.0: Handspring 
    Visor / Palm OS converter detected
    May  6 08:34:32 kinda kernel: [1643030.615563] usb 4-1: Handspring Visor 
    / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB2
    May  6 08:34:32 kinda kernel: [1643030.615624] usb 4-1: Handspring Visor 
    / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB3
    May  6 08:37:14 kinda kernel: [1643192.906058] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, 
    address 38
    May  6 08:37:14 kinda kernel: [1643192.909238] visor ttyUSB2: Handspring 
    Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
    May  6 08:37:14 kinda kernel: [1643192.909537] visor ttyUSB3: Handspring 
    Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB3
    May  6 08:37:14 kinda kernel: [1643192.909551] visor 4-1:1.0: device 
    disconnected
    May  6 08:37:23 kinda kernel: [1643201.653710] usb 4-1: new full speed 
    USB device using uhci_hcd and address 39
    May  6 08:37:23 kinda kernel: [1643201.828739] usb 4-1: configuration #1 
    chosen from 1 choice
    May  6 08:37:23 kinda kernel: [1643201.833665] visor 4-1:1.0: Handspring 
    Visor / Palm OS converter detected
    May  6 08:37:23 kinda kernel: [1643201.833838] usb 4-1: Handspring Visor 
    / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB2
    May  6 08:37:23 kinda kernel: [1643201.833902] usb 4-1: Handspring Visor 
    / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB3
    
    
    
    

     

     

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