Bug 163903
Summary: | pilot-link does not work with usb palm devices | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Robert Williams <bob> | ||||
Component: | pilot-link | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | kas, mirsev | ||||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2007-08-22 13:58:00 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Robert Williams
2005-07-21 20:58:46 UTC
I see the similar behaviour with Tungsten T5. It is probably some weird udev/kernel thing - the /dev/ttyUSB* devices are created several seconds after the hot-sync button is pressed (altough the message about new ttyUSB devices in the kernel log appears instantly), and pilot-link (or jpilot) apparently has a rather small window to catch up with the Palm device then. I have even tried a bleeding edge system - the 2.6.15-rc6 kernel compiled by myslef, and rawhide RPMs recompiled for FC4 (just rpmbuild --rebuild src.rpm) of udev-077, jpilot-0.99.8-2.1, pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.5.1 - the problem is still here. I run x86_64, so I am for changing the "hardware" field from "i386" to "all". I am sure this has already been reported there, but I cannot find it right now. Could you please try to reproduce your bug this the latest version of pilot-link pilot-link-0.12.1-3.fc7. Created attachment 150397 [details]
palm sync kernel oops
with f7 (devel) and pilot-link-0.12.1-5.fc7 and my trep 700p connected via USB
i can see in the syslog the msgs about the device being attached to ttyUSB0 and
ttyUSB1...
launch gpilotd-control-applet specify 'USB' connnection on device /dev/ttyUSB0
-- choose "yes i've used sync software with this PDA before" and click forward
to 'retrieve Owner Name and ID from the PDA'
as soon as i press the sync button for the device we get a kernel oops.
attached
It appears the expeirence of many people with PalmOS devices shows that pilot- link-0.12.1 compiled with libusb support works much better (faster and more stable) than Fedora's stock pilot-link using visor driver. I'm sure libusb support must be default in Fedora. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ show_bug.cgi?id=236413 However, some USB stuff seems to be broken in new 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 kernel (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249132). May I ask a question? This bug report was filed two years ago and the progress seems really too slow. Why is that? My question to Ivana Varekova: what is the problem? Are there compatibility problems with other devices? Do you need some help? P.S. It seems das_deniz had not marked his report as providing requested information, so I do it right now in order to change the status of this bug. Hello, now in fc7/devel branch there are versions with usb support (pilot-link-0.12.2-4.fc8/pilot-link-0.12.2-4.fc7). There remains problem with permissions (#158809). The answer for Serguei Miridonov - I'm sorry, I didn't have enough time to solve this problem. The situation has changed, though, so it should be better now. |