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  • David A. Desrosiers david.a.desrosiers at gmail.com
    Fri May 30 08:59:36 EDT 2008

     

    On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton
    <chris at vindaloo.com> wrote:
    > This is your rosetta stone so to speak. If my assumption is correct
    > setting up udev will create the /dev/pilot entry that I mentioned on
    > hotsync initiation at the Palm device.
    
    Assuming his udev rules are correctly set up and the version of udev
    is a working version (there is one distro out there that silently
    upgraded udev, breaking all "legacy" udev rules without any migration
    path forward), he should be able to get his Palm device to sync.
    
    Also some of the distributions ship with a broken udev rule for Palm
    devices which points only to the odd-numbered usb endpoints [0135].
    Just verify that the rule is correct and catches the device endpoint
    that your specific device uses (there are always 2 for Palm devices),
    and it should be fine.
    
    Last caveat: There is at least 1 known Palm device which _does not_
    work with libpisock using udev like this, due to the way it seems to
    try to "mount" itself as a pseudo filesystem when you physically
    connect it to a cable or cradle (before hitting HotSync); the Palm
    Lifedrive.
    
    Any Palm device that Linux sees straight away when you simply plug it
    into a cradle or cable will probably not work properly with udev and
    hence pilot-link/jpilot/etc. I hope the Palm TX is not one of these
    devices or we're chasing our tails down a dead-end road.
    
    There are recent reports of the m130 also not working, but I haven't
    discounted that the distributions "changed" something there as well.
    We're working that out on the pilot-link mailing list now.
    

     

     

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