[TriLUG] Zire 71 - anyone?

J. "Spydir Web" Powers spydir at netsyndrome.net
Wed Nov 19 22:41:27 EST 2003


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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>>>Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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>>>
>>
>>
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