[TriLUG] Zire 71 - anyone?

[Andrew Perrin]

I have a sneaking suspicion that it has to do with Debian's packaging of
the kernel -- debian is pretty conservative about including new code in
non-unstable releases.  I don't claim to understand it, but given the
difference between my experience and yours (and those of others found via
google) I'm going to chalk it up to debian.

Thanks,
Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, J. "Spydir Web" Powers wrote:

> that's weird because I've always used the straight source code and it works
> perfectly.  well, whatever, glad you got it working.  I have to say you're going
> to love the zire 71, it's my favorite purchase of all time.
>
> Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, J. "Spydir Web" Powers wrote:
> >
> >
> >>http://pilot-link.org/README.usb
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the hint, but the answer is not there, as it turns out.
> > Although the page suggests that the Zire 71 is included in the visor
> > driver in 2.4.20 and 2.4.22, it is in fact not there.  I added it
> > manually, by copying the code from
> > http://wiki.pilot-link.org/index.php/VisorStructures into visor.c and
> > visor.h, then doing a "make modules" and copying the resulting visor.o
> > into the /lib/modules... tree.  Now it works great.
> >
> > I will be posting instructions to my website sometime :)
> >
> > ap
> >
> >
> >>Andrew Perrin wrote:
> >>
> >>>Has anyone got a Palm Zire 71 working with linux? I bought one (cheap, by
> >>>the way, from overstock.com) but can't get it working so far. I'm using
> >>>kernel 2.4.20, whose visor.{c|h} module theoretically has the zire 71
> >>>built in, but the strong sense I'm getting is that it's not there for some
> >>>reason.  Note the syslog entry when I try to sync:
> >>>
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:08 joehill kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1, assigned
> >>>address 6
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:08 joehill kernel: usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x830/0x60)
> >>>is not claimed by any active driver.
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:11 joehill kernel: usb.c: registered new driver serial
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:11 joehill kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered
> >>>for Generic
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:11 joehill kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:11 joehill kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered
> >>>for Handspring Visor / Palm 4.0 / Cli<E9> 4.x
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:11 joehill kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered
> >>>for Sony Cli<E9> 3.5
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:11 joehill kernel: visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor, Palm m50x,
> >>>Sony Cli<E9> driver v1.6
> >>>Nov 18 21:57:23 joehill kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:10.0-1
> >>>address 6
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>But when I try to connect to /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1, I get "no such
> >>>device".  Similarly with /dev/usb/tts/*.
> >>>
> >>>According to http://wiki.pilot-link.org/index.php/VisorStructures I should
> >>>find PALM_ZIRE71 in the sources for the visor module. But I don't:
> >>>
> >>>joehill:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/drivers/usb/serial# grep ZIRE71 visor.*
> >>>joehill:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/drivers/usb/serial# grep ZIRE71 *
> >>>joehill:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/drivers/usb/serial#
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>So something's odd here.  This, by the way, is debian testing (sid) with
> >>>home-compiled kernel 2.4.20. Thanks for any help.
> >>>
> >>>Andy
> >>>
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> >>>Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> >>>Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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> >>>
> >>
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