[Sussex] Palm OS, Kontact/Kpim and/or a W98 Laptop???

[Colin Tuckley]

John D. wrote:

> Thanks for the replies chaps.
> 
> After doing some more digging and reading, I had some successes. The Treo did 
> eventually sync, after I'd "loaded" (? is that what it does) the modules for 
> both usbserial and visor with modprobe. For the life of me I can't see why it 
> doesn't want to show the Treo as connected when I look with lsusb (or lspci). 
> The instructions I found just gave a "bald list" of what I should be doing 
> (it was on someones blog so.......). 
> 
> I asked at Siduxs' IRC channel if anyone knew how I could make it so that the 
> modules where loaded at boot - someone told me about adding them to 
> the /etc/modules list - the usbserial starts fine, but the visor didn't seem 
> to do the same - I'm thinking that that must be possible but haven't managed 
> to work out how it might be done yet.

adding them to /etc/modules is the correct thing to do. It's possible you
only need one of them.

They won't show up as loaded I don't think unless you can catch it while a
sync is actually happening. This is because usb serial devices only actually
exist while they are doing something, so it vanishes as soon as the sync is
finished.

Colin

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