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Re: [LUG] Palm Lifedrive & Linux

 

On Sunday 01 January 2006 4:35 pm, John Botwright wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:09:40PM +0000, Simon Robert wrote:
> > I am attempting to connect a lifedrive to mandriva 2006
>
> I also had problems using USB Palm peripherals (under RedHat).
>
> 1) check /dev/ttyUSB0 exists
>    if not, create it using; mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0

Caution on that - you shouldn't have to create the node yourself - it may 
being created dynamically - and note the next problem:

> 2) export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB0

Not necessarily. Many devices take up two ports and actually use:
PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB1
for communication. If you only create USB0, you'll get nowhere.

> 3i ) modprobe uhci
>  ii) modprobe usb-serial

There are problems there too - modprobe visor may be needed in some cases.

Generally, such module shenanigans is done elsewhere in recent distributions, 
the days of doing such things yourself should soon be behind us.

> N.B. You might get problems using either uhci or usb-uhci as the usb hub
> driver. Why oh why are there two drivers? One works for my webcam and
> the other for my flash drive, but not both!

Why else? These are proprietary devices - why should they cooperate?

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