Help: KPilot and Palm Tungsten T3 initial setup

Paul Thompson fiction at bigpond.net.au
Sun Jun 20 09:57:18 UTC 2004


Thanks Jeff,

Solved the problem. It was the permissions settings on the USB port which 
Adriaan deGroot pointed out to me.

Cheers
Paul

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:23 pm, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Paul Thompson wrote:
> >Hi, Is there anyone on the list who is familiar with kpilot and palm
> > pilots? I have just bought a Tungsten T3 and am trying to set it up to
> > run under FC2.
> >
> >After connecting the device the var/log/messages seems to report Two usb
> >connections, one on ttyUSB0 and the other on ttyUSB1. (See log below) I've
> >tried both to no avail.
> >
> >Kpilot log shows an attempt to connect to ttyUSB0, but says it is not
> >read-write. The commandline test as per the kpilot tests at the portal
> > report a similar lack of connection in the shell.
> >
> >I've checked the KDE and kpilot sites and the kpilot user guide.
> >
> >Does anyone have any hints?
>
> Try  ttyUSB1.  Often if one does not work then the other will, and AFAIK
> there as yet seems to be no way to predict which is correct so you have
> a 50/50 chance on the first attempt.
>
> This is discussed a lot on the jpilot list.
> http://www.jpilot.org/
>
> >Cheers
> >Paul
> >mailto:fiction at bigpond.net.au
> >
> >ps. copy of the two logs follow ...
> >
> >I tailed my /var/log/messages and got this as the device connected:
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >------------------------- Jun 19 16:56:11 localhost kernel: usb 1-4.3: new
> > full speed USB device using address 8
> >Jun 19 16:56:11 localhost kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:02:0e.2: qh 1e543500 (#0)
> >state 1
> >Jun 19 16:56:11 localhost kernel: usbserial 1-4.3:1.0: Handspring Visor /
> > Palm OS converter detected
> >Jun 19 16:56:11 localhost kernel: usb 1-4.3: Handspring Visor / Palm OS
> >converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> >Jun 19 16:56:11 localhost kernel: usb 1-4.3: Handspring Visor / Palm OS
> >converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> ><end>
> >
> >Kpilot Log Follows:
> >-------------------------------
> >Version: KPilot 4.4.1
> >Version: pilot-link 0.11.8
> >Version: KDE 3.2.2-3 Red Hat
> >Version: Qt 3.3.2
> >HotSync Log
> >KPilot has been reported to cause data loss. Please check with
> >kdepim-users at kde.org.
> >16:51:23  Starting the KPilot daemon ...
> >16:51:23  Daemon status is `'
> >16:51:23  Pilot device /dev/ttyUSB0 is not read-write.
> >16:51:24  Trying to open device /dev/ttyUSB0...
> >16:51:24  Could not open device: /dev/ttyUSB0 (will retry)
> ><end>

-- 
Paul Thompson
mailto:fiction at bigpond.net.au





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