[TriLUG] Zire 71 - anyone?

Andrew Perrin clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Wed Nov 19 11:09:04 EST 2003


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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