Palm Pilot

[Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:

> Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Jos? Alexandre Nalon wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> > I have a Palm T/X and have been trying as well to get it to sync
> >> > properly with Linux.  Several years ago I had a Palm IIIxe and it
> >> > synced
> > 
> > For what it's worth:
> > 
> > I have an old Handspring Visor. Worked perfectly w/ everything from Rehat
> > 9 to FC 5. Now w/ Kubuntu feisty, it just won't sync.
> > 
> > Looking on the web, this is what I need to do everytime.
> > 
> > sudo /sbin/modprobe usbserial
> > sudo /sbin/modprobe visor
> 
> That would appear to be an issue with depmod - visor should always depend on
> usbserial, so modprobe usbserial before inserting visor.
> > 
> > I tried all sorts of stuff w/ udev but only managed to screw up my system.
> > After I added the required file to /etc/udev/rules.d/ I could not login at
> > all. It turned out that /dev/null is being created w/ 600 perms instead of
> > 666.
> 
> The default /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules contains the line:
> KERNEL=="null",                         MODE="0666"

I already checked and this is present. Still tough luck.

> 
> > Sad state of affairs this.
> > 
> > Feisty has been a major disappointment. I am sorely tempted to go back to
> > FC or maybe Debian testing.
> 
> Feisty isn't to blame for the udev problem.
> -- 
> derek

Sharukh.
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Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.  			Homoeopath, Linuxer.
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