Handspring Visor Sync Woes w/ Evolution (this is really getting old)

[Paul M. Bucalo]

I would love to see some replies from anyone successfully syncing an
older Palm or Handspring device on Ubuntu 5.04. I'm using a Visor Neo. 

I resolved all of this to perfection in FC3. Nothing I did in FC3 works
here, *nor does any other configuration information I have found
throughout the Web*. The device does register under /proc/usb/devices
when the cradle sync is activated, so it's not a connection issue.
Listed below are the rules I have successfully used in FC3 for this
device:

pmbuc at pmbent1:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules
# Handspring Visor
KERNEL="ttyUSB[0-9]*",SYMLINK="pilot"
BUS="usb", KERNEL="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"

pmbuc at pmbent1:~$ cat /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-udev.permissions
pilot:root:usb:0666

Some of you more experienced USB/udev users will notice that the
settings are not orthodox. The more generic, orthodox rules that are
typically used for Palm devices won't work for this Handspring.  

'pilot-xfer' doesn't work. Neither does JPilot. 

May be important to note that I have a fully working Epson CX-5400 on
the same USB hub that the Handspring is on, getting both scanning
through XSane and printing from CUPS. This was also true under FC3.

I'm open to all reasonable suggestions, but I do not want to bypass udev
nor break it to make this work. If it worked under FC3, it has to work
in Ubuntu.

TIA,

Paul