palm sync issue

[thesource]

Has anyone had a chance to try to install and sync a palm pilot or other device running palm os and been successful at doing it in FC4? Even though I update FC3 with the newest kernel and enter the go into udev and create the rules I am suppose to I have yet to sync my palm. It doesnt even recognize it either, when I first connect it and or press the sync button. It would be a tragedy that Linux stops supporting palm Os devices.

:mad: :(

[Avix]

PDA's seem to be a extreamly low priority for Fedora. my other USB devices work no problem, but trying to get a PDA to work is extreamly problematic.

it's so nice when your /dev/pilot disappears every time you access it.

[fire-fly]

.... It would be a tragedy that Linux stops supporting palm Os devices.



Fully agreed, one of the main reason that preventing to migrate fully to linux. :(

[ucfagls]

Have you seen this article from FedoraNews' Thomas Chung: http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gnome-pilot/

[Flyen]

Thanks for the tip, but that didn't do it.

I've tried the suggestions from 2 different FAQ's. They both have you modify a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/, but neither works. This is on FC4-test2

The (non-working) suggestions were as follows:
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="pilot"

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
KERNEL="ttyUSB1",SYMLINK="pilot"

[mbokil]

I tried both rules also and can't get my palm to synch anymore. It was working on FC3 with
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
KERNEL="ttyUSB1",SYMLINK="pilot"

It is always such a pain to get pilot connected with each new Fedora release. The problem started when the distros switched to udev and devices automatically appear and disappear when removed. This scheme appears to mess up older applications looking for the device to be present all the time.

[Flyen]

Hey,
Here's a temporary workaround until they get this fixed:
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="pilot"

Get kpilotDaemon ready to do a sync, then press the hotsync button on the cradle. As root, type this:
chown user.group /dev/pilot

where user and group is your username and group. For example, I'm the greg user that is part of the greg group. I type:

chown greg.greg /dev/pilot

KPilot should then start syncing with the palm.

Hope that helps,
Greg

[Flyen]

Ok, here's the real solution. Found it here: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

/etc/udev/rules.d/10-palm.rules:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="palmOne Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", NAME{ignore_remove}="pilot", MODE="666"

get rid of any old 10-local.rules if you created it by following earlier advice from this thread.