[lug] kpilot and Zire 21

[Todd Ruskell]

Liz,
Did you get your Zire working?  I jsut set up a Tungsten over Christmas to
work with Debian, and here's some of what I learned:

Use hotplug to manage the USB devices, which it already looks like you're
doing.

I usually just rebuild my kernel, but Krud may already have the
required modules present.

When building your kernel, make sure you have the required modules.  I
took the "big stick" approach, and compiled virtually all possible USB
drivers as modules.  In particular, though, make sure you have "USB
Serial Converter support" and the "USB Handspring Visor/Palm m50x/Sonly
Clie Driver", and possibly the "USB Compaq iPAQ/HP Jornada/Casio EM500
Driver" compiled as modules.

Hotplug recognized my Tungsten using the Handspring Visor driver, at
apparently *both* ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1, but kpilot would only see it on
ttyUSB1.

Now it seems to "just work."

You might want to try out www.linux-usb.org  I got some good help from
there.

Good Luck,

Todd

>Thanks, Michael.  Jon gave me a hint and I got the USB ports up with:
>
>	modprobe usb-uhci
>
>and I found the proper device names:
>
>        /dev/usb/ttyUSB0
>	/dev/usb/ttyUSB1
>
>Unfortunately, KRUD 8.0 doesn't seem to recognize my Palm.
>
>Dec 16 14:21:49 jelly /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB
>product 0/0/0
>
>
>So I'm currently enmeshed in upgrading to KRUD 9.  I'll drop a note
>if/when
>I get it up and working.
>
>Take care!
>
>Liz