[LUG] handspring visor & usb recognition

[Ray Smith <johnnyraybravo at bigfoot.com>]

I finally got my visor working with mandrake 7.2 yesterday. It seems that all 
the how to's I've read are slightly wrong or mandrake have altered something. 
usbserial is the module I needed to load and not usb-serial but I've no idea 
if now that I found it if I really needed to recompile the kernel or not.

Anyway, this is my first post to the group, Hiya !, although I've been 
reading the posts for a while under windows & my first time posting with 
linux.

I'm having a few problems with my visor, as stated I got it working for the 
first time yesterday using j-pilot set up to use a symbolic link from 
/dev/visor or /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyUSB1 which it usually seems to recognize.

I compiled the source for coldfusion which refuses to recognize and device at 
all on the usb port even though j-pilot seems to work. pilot link seems to 
work in that if I use the pilot xfer utility to list all the databases on the 
visor it works but if I try to back up it does some of it then the connection 
stops responding.

I've seen several references to setting the PILOTRATE variable to something 
higher than the deafult of 9600 but I can't seem to find where this is stored 
anywhere. thee doesn't seem to be a command line option to alter it either.

Anyone else have any experience of setting up a visor or pilot with usb  who 
can give me some pointers.
It seems odd the jpilot works almost flawlessly,one partially & another not 
at all when they are all supposed to use the basic pilot link suite of 
utilities so I'm rather confused by it all.

BTW. If anyone cares to send me a jpg of  the poster for the linux install 
day (by asrrangement only,I don't want loads of them) I'll be happy to print 
it out & put it up where I work (Orange)

Ray Smith

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