This is the first in a barrage of questions, since I switched from SuSE 9 to Fedora Core 1. I did this because I felt that Linux needs to be free. Yes, Novell/SuSE makes an exceptional rpoduct, and I was happy, but my standards have to come about somewhere..

Anyways...

I now am the proud owner of a Sony Clie TJ27 handheld. However, this version of the Clie is not supported natively in the visor module, and cannot be found as a USB device. I have tried this with my CD burner also, but that's another thread in another post that I'll make shortly.

The issue is I need to get support enabled in this module, and if I can just compile the module after adding the code that I found on the net, I'll be happy. I don't want to recompile the kernel, since I am horrible at it. That's how my system crashed last time. Kernel panic.. the typical answer for a newbie.

Anyone's help is appreciated. Off to the next post..

-J.

OK, I added the TJ27 vendor ID to the visor.c and visor.h files, and still under dmesg | grep usb, it states that it still is not claimed by an active driver. even though it compiled without a hitch, and after doing a modprobe visor again. hehehe... The TJ27 isn't even in the wiki for pilot-link. Which means that there may be no support for it yet, since it may be a different vendor number, but that seems unlikely, since the vendor ID comes up under the dmesg.

Any new ideas?

-J.

I am using SuSE 9.1 and my visor works great w/ jpilot.

My question is, how do I download the pictures off of it. I tried mounting it usign usbfs, but there is very little in the directory. I tried using kpilot, but it downloaded the pics as pda db files.

Help?

I got this from another forum that might work. The only way to get this to work at this time is to do some code compiling (as directed by writer of this solution). Check this out and I hope this works. (I will be looking back at this later since I am the proud owner of a PEG-TJ27 as well.)


Had to modify the sourcecode and recompile. Changed: /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/serial/visor.h -added #define SONY_CLIE_TJ27_ID 0x0169
/usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/serial/visor.c -added { USB_DEVICE(SONY_VENDOR_ID, SONY_CLIE_TJ27_ID) }, to end of id_table and id_table_combined. After that I got pilot-link and KPilot to work.

Here's what I found from yet another forum. The person who posted this was using Mandrake 9.2, so it might work on your system (no guarantees I am a newbie myself and the commands look VERY similar) This is what he suggested....

mkdir /mnt/ms mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/ms

they look like they should be separated somehow, but that is just the DOS inside me talking. Good luck with this stuff and give me a buzz with what happens! I am going to be running Fedora Core 2 in a month or so and gotta get some code straight.

Thanks, I will try the second suggestion when I get a chance.

As for your frst post, I can sync my Clie, I just can't download the pics. I'll let you know what kind of luck I have with them.

I tried your suggestion. My Clie doesn't appear as /dev/sda1 jpilot connects to it using /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 I tried to mount that as a vfat FS, but it failed.

(I have always been able to mount /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 as a usbfs FS, but that doesn't contail the JPG's)

Instead of trying the long way of mounting the memory stick, you could always try getting a 7-in-1 memory card reader and load from that and just mount that very simply. I'll try to dig up other scripts for you in the next few days. MicroCenter or CompUSA or BestBuy may have a good deal on a media reader.

If I had a memory stick I would get a 7 in 1 media reader, however I am just using the Clie itseld without a memory stick.