Fedora Newbie Palm Questions

[Igor Anikeev]

Hi all!

I have two questions concerning my Sony Cliie.  In the old days of 
kernel 2.4 I would simply add usbserial, visor,and usb-storage to my 
/etc/modules files (I used to use ALT Linux 2.2). For synchroniztion 
purposes I'd use /dev/ttyUSB0, and for MS Import application on CLie I'd 
just mount the flash card as /dev/sda1 - and it all worked.

I have by now spent about 20 hours to try to figure out why it doesn't 
work in Fedora 2. Could someone care for a step-by-step instructions or 
just a link as to how to set it all ip?

Using lsusb i can actually see devices appearing,but cannot do a damn 
thing with them.

Thanks is advance.

[sergio]

Igor Anikeev wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have two questions concerning my Sony Cliie.  In the old days of 
> kernel 2.4 I would simply add usbserial, visor,and usb-storage to my 
> /etc/modules files (I used to use ALT Linux 2.2). For synchroniztion 
> purposes I'd use /dev/ttyUSB0, and for MS Import application on CLie 
> I'd just mount the flash card as /dev/sda1 - and it all worked.
>
> I have by now spent about 20 hours to try to figure out why it doesn't 
> work in Fedora 2. Could someone care for a step-by-step instructions 
> or just a link as to how to set it all ip?
>
> Using lsusb i can actually see devices appearing,but cannot do a damn 
> thing with them.
>
> Thanks is advance.

Hi.
I have no idea of what to do but I'm also interested on this subject 
because I just bought a Sony Clie, so if anyone would be kind enough to 
help us...
Thanks.

[Ben Steeves]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:09:21 +0100, Sérgio Bryton  wrote:
> > I have by now spent about 20 hours to try to figure out why it doesn't
> > work in Fedora 2. Could someone care for a step-by-step instructions
> > or just a link as to how to set it all ip?
> >
> > Using lsusb i can actually see devices appearing,but cannot do a damn
> > thing with them.
> >
> > Thanks is advance.
>
> Hi.
> I have no idea of what to do but I'm also interested on this subject
> because I just bought a Sony Clie, so if anyone would be kind enough to
> help us...
> Thanks.

See if this is of any use:
http://www.metacon.ca/bcs/view.php?page=linux  -- keep in mind that
for a Clie, the /dev/ttyUSB0/1 assignation might be different than on
a PalmOne device.

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 10:09, Sérgio Bryton wrote:
> Igor Anikeev wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have two questions concerning my Sony Cliie.  In the old days of 
> > kernel 2.4 I would simply add usbserial, visor,and usb-storage to my 
> > /etc/modules files (I used to use ALT Linux 2.2). For synchroniztion 
> > purposes I'd use /dev/ttyUSB0, and for MS Import application on CLie 
> > I'd just mount the flash card as /dev/sda1 - and it all worked.
> >
> > I have by now spent about 20 hours to try to figure out why it doesn't 
> > work in Fedora 2. Could someone care for a step-by-step instructions 
> > or just a link as to how to set it all ip?
> >
> > Using lsusb i can actually see devices appearing,but cannot do a damn 
> > thing with them.
> >
> > Thanks is advance.
>
> Hi.
> I have no idea of what to do but I'm also interested on this subject 
> because I just bought a Sony Clie, so if anyone would be kind enough to 
> help us...
> Thanks.

I am using FC 2 and have an NX-70V, which I connect to and synch with a
Dell 5150 laptop using the USB cradle.

For synching, I use /dev/ttyUSB1 along with Evolution. You need to be
sure to change the permissions (as root) on that device to:

# chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB1

For connecting to the MS, I have the following entry in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1    /mnt/clie      vfat      noauto,user,rw         0 0

Put the above into your /etc/fstab and run (again as root):

/usr/sbin/updfstab

Be sure to actually create the mount point (again as root):

# mkdir /mnt/clie

With that done, you should be able to Connect the MS Import program on
the Clie and then use:

$ mount /mnt/clie

and then use whatever filemanager you use or the command line to review
/mnt/clie:

$ ls /mnt/clie
dcim  memstick.ind  mq_root  mstk_pro.ind  palm

BTW, I presume that you are aware that Sony has announced the demise of
the Clie line in the U.S. and Europe in deference to converged PDA/cell
phone devices....:

http://news.com.com/Sony+to+exit+U.S.+handheld+business/2100-1040_3-5223580....

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

Fedora Palm Questions - Resolved

[Igor Anikeev]

Hi,

My thanks goto Mark Schwartz for helpingto sortme it all out.

I chose syncinig with j-pilot, and that'show I did it:

The device turned out to be at /dev/ttyUSB1, so I did a chmod 0666 
/dev/ttyUSB1

and it basically worked.

As for the external MS card and MSImport application it turned out 
important to have the following lines in modprobe.conf:

alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

One of thos was missing in my initial setup.

After that put the following entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1    /mnt/clie      vfat      noauto,user,rw         0 0

As root run /usr/sbin/updfstab

mkdir /mnt/clie

And you're all set.  It even automounts.

The only remaining problemwith syncronization isthat localeon FC2 for 
Russians is ru_RU.UTF-8, and j-pilot 0.99.7 doesn't suggest the option 
of recoding Host UTF-8 - Palm windows-1251 (or koi8-r for that matter).  
I filed a bug for them and hope it'll be available sometime soon.

Igor Anikeev wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have two questions concerning my Sony Cliie.  In the old days of 
> kernel 2.4 I would simply add usbserial, visor,and usb-storage to my 
> /etc/modules files (I used to use ALT Linux 2.2). For synchroniztion 
> purposes I'd use /dev/ttyUSB0, and for MS Import application on CLie 
> I'd just mount the flash card as /dev/sda1 - and it all worked.
>
> I have by now spent about 20 hours to try to figure out why it doesn't 
> work in Fedora 2. Could someone care for a step-by-step instructions 
> or just a link as to how to set it all ip?
>
> Using lsusb i can actually see devices appearing,but cannot do a damn 
> thing with them.
>
> Thanks is advance.

Fedora Palm Questions - Resolved

[Grigory Bakunov]

> As for the external MS card and MSImport application it turned out
> After that put the following entry in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1    /mnt/clie      vfat      noauto,user,rw         0 0
> As root run /usr/sbin/updfstab
> mkdir /mnt/clie

So sad what it's works only with CLIE.
Old Palm's like m5xx and Tungsten series  haven't something like MSImport
so I can't mount my SD/MMC card.
> The only remaining problemwith syncronization isthat localeon FC2 for
> Russians is ru_RU.UTF-8, and j-pilot 0.99.7 doesn't suggest the option
> of recoding Host UTF-8 - Palm windows-1251 (or koi8-r for that matter).
> I filed a bug for them and hope it'll be available sometime soon.

Realy gnome-pilot provides much more usable interface. And integration
with evolution is a big plus too. But gnome-pilot know nothig about
'charsets', 'encodings' etc.