I have done every thing that I can find to read on how to get my handspring visor deluxe to sync with my RH 8.0 and yet it will not if any one can help please let me know, also what about a sony n505 minidisc player/recorder I need to get this to work with the RH 8.0 as well thank you

try jpilot (you can get it from freshmeat.net) and make sure pilot-link is installed (jpilot configure will whine if it doesnt have it, and in fact, won't work.) The easy way to get this running is install pilot-link (RH8.0 should have it installed already, but it never hurts to install it again.), and make a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS1 (or whatever port) as /dev/pilot. This should work with Visors, as it does with every other palm...the visor deluxe is serial port, correct? bring up jpilot, click sync, then press the hotsync button on the handspring cradle. it should work, let me know if it doesnt.

icy

Ok I have done all that but the symoblic link part I have made all the usb ready and every thing else that I could find out about pilot-link and jpilot, could you tell me more about the symbolic link part that might be the key that I am missing

try /dev/ttyUSB0, 1, etc....either that or under /dev/usb/...

however, so far the best page ive seen is www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto ...check it out and if that doesnt work, let me know.

hope it helps,

icy

pi_accept invalid argument
exiting with status -13 that is the error that jpilot gives me when I try to sync

here is the list from my lsmod

[root@localhost root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
visor 12712 1
usbserial 22108 0 [visor]
emu10k1 68840 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 74228 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6500 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
radeon 94008 11
agpgart 42912 3
binfmt_misc 7524 1
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ne2k-pci 7296 1
8390 8236 0 [ne2k-pci]
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14840 1 [iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [ide-cd]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-ohci 21288 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [visor usbserial hid usb-ohci]
ext3 70400 2
jbd 52212 2 [ext3]

hmm.... did you try to soft reset your visor before synching the first time? this is sometimes known to solve visor sync problems, and if that doesn't work, try a hard reset (after synching your data somewhere else, of course). also, your error looks like its from pi_accept...try pressing the hotsync button BEFORE running the sync script.

your modules are spiffy, so that obviously isn't the problem.

hope i'm of help,

icy

oh my, i'm so sorry Ld. I was away at the store when you msg'd me. feel free to gaim me anytime i'm online; however, until next monday, i will not be in linux. (i'm at home for thanksgiving from college). windows sucks.

you said your visor still would not sync....hmm....i have a palm IIIc and it was a cinch to install....have you tried coldsync? from what i hear, it has better usb support. that error still puzzles me....its not jpilot, but rather pilot-link that is whining. hm....

i should be on aim later on tonight if you wish to talk about this in realtime.

hope this helps,

icy