[TriLUG] Zire 71 - anyone?

Wed Nov 19 22:55:50 EST 2003

maybe, but slackware's the same way.  plus I always download the source code 
right from kernel.org and build my own whenever I do an install.  I dunno, it's 
pretty weird, but as long as you got it fixed...

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>>>>>Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>>>>>clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
>>>>>
>>>>
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