Palm Zire 72 and FC2 USB connection

Mike Burney burneym at bigfoot.com
Sun Jun 20 18:03:22 UTC 2004


Dexter,

I was just dealing with the same issue with a Tungsten T3.  For grins, I 
downloaded jpilot and it synced just fine.  See if that works for you.

Mike

Dexter Ang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone else here uses a Palm Zire 72 on FC2? Has 
> anyone successfully connected and used pilot-xfer using a USB 
> connection? I've noticed when "tail -f /var/log/messages" that my Palm 
> keeps alternating connection between /dev/ttyUSB0 and 1 and then to 
> /dev/ttyUSB2 and 3. Is this simply a strangeness of the Zire 72? Or 
> something that can be solved somehow in FC2?
>
> Specifically /var/log/messages shows:
>
> Jun 20 22:38:36 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB 
> device using address 3
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: 
> USB Serial support registered for Generic
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: usbcore: registered new driver 
> usbserial
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: 
> USB Serial Driver core v2.0
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: 
> USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm OS
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: 
> USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 3.5
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: 
> USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 5.0
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: visor 2-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / 
> Palm OS converter detected
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm 
> OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm 
> OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: usbcore: registered new driver visor
> Jun 20 22:38:38 portablepoch kernel: drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB 
> HandSpring
> Visor / Palm OS driver v2.1
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 3
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / 
> Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / 
> Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: visor 2-2:1.0: device disconnected
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB 
> device using address 4
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: usbserial 2-2:1.0: Handspring 
> Visor / Palm
> OS converter detected
> Jun 20 22:39:11 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm 
> OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> Jun 20 22:39:12 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm 
> OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> Jun 20 22:39:22 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 4
> Jun 20 22:39:22 portablepoch kernel: visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / 
> Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
> Jun 20 22:39:22 portablepoch kernel: visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / 
> Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
> Jun 20 22:39:22 portablepoch kernel: usbserial 2-2:1.0: device 
> disconnected
> Jun 20 22:39:23 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB 
> device using address 5
> Jun 20 22:39:23 portablepoch kernel: usbserial 2-2:1.0: Handspring 
> Visor / Palm
> OS converter detected
> Jun 20 22:39:23 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm 
> OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> Jun 20 22:39:23 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm 
> OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
> Jun 20 22:39:28 portablepoch kernel: usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 5
>
> Sorry for the long logfile I inserted.
>
> dex
>
>





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