my treo won't sync

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:24, Tom Vier wrote:

> i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes
> it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char
> dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right after
> hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn't seen.
>
> does anyone have any tips? this is a treo 90.

I don't have a lot of knowledge about Treo, but some things to consider
from my Visor days:

You need a module to sync, it's somewhat specific to the hardware. The
Visor used the visor.o module, and my current Clie uses the same. I
don't know what's the right one for your Treo, but you need to look for
that.

USB loads the module when the sync button is pressed. Pressing the
button effectively plugs a new device into the USB bus, the hotplug
scripts recognize it (or don't) and load the appropriate module (or
don't).

So, you need to have the module, and you need to have the hotplug
scripts installed, and you need to have them configured to recognize the
Treo device when it appears on the USB bus and load the proper module.

Have you Googled on the topic?

Cheers,
Bret
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[Haim Ashkenazi]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 06:24, Tom Vier wrote:

> i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes
> it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb
> char dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right
> after hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn't
> seen.
>
> does anyone have any tips? this is a treo 90.

Hi

I've got treo 270 communicator, and I've only tried it with kpilot (KDE 3.1.2
for woody, downloaded from kde.org), but it works without a problem.

Bye

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[Åsmund Ødegård]

Thu, 31 Jul meddelte Bill Thompson følgende:

BT> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 05:30:10 +0200, Tom Vier wrote:

>> i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes
>> it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char
>> dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right after
>> hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn't seen.
>>
>> does anyone have any tips? this is a treo 90.
>>
>> --
>> Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
>> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA

BT> When last I checked, the Treo90 and Treo300 did not work via USB with
BT> Linux. The USB ports on those models were redesigned and do not use the
BT> same driver as the rest of the Handspring models. I purchased a serial
BT> adapter for my Treo300 from the Handspring web site and have been able to use
BT> that to sync with Debian using pilot-xfer and jPilot.

FWIW, treo 180 work more or less out of the box though.

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[Tom Vier]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:22:57PM -0700, Warren Dodge wrote:

> auto configuring/module loading
> usbmgr

usbmgr sees it, i still have the same problem. i have to press the hotsync
button before /dev/ttyUSB* will show up. when i run pilot-xfer or kpilot,
they want me to hit it again. if i don't, they complain that the char dev
doesn't exist. are you using devfs, too?

thanks for the help, everyone.

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[Warren Dodge]

This one time, at band camp, Tom Vier said:
(Saturday 02 August 2003 10:49 am)

> usbmgr sees it, i still have the same problem. i have to press the hotsync
> button before /dev/ttyUSB* will show up. when i run pilot-xfer or kpilot,
> they want me to hit it again. if i don't, they complain that the char dev
> doesn't exist. are you using devfs, too?

No, I don't use devfs. But I think there is a mechanism where you can manually
make device nodes and devfs will reconstruct them for you on bootup. You
might be able to have it create the device nodes before you push the sync
button by doing this. Good luck.

Warren


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