Bug 105824

Summary: USB Detection in KPilot does not function properly
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Christopher Robbins <robbinsc>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: lnussel
Version: Beta 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Found By: Beta-Customer Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: /var/log/messages
lshal output

Description Christopher Robbins 2005-08-19 12:52:33 UTC 
When plugging in Palm devices (notably, the Treo 650 and others), device
auto-detection DOES NOT work.  I'm posting /var/log/messages, which notes that
there is a USB Handspring/Visor device loaded, and loads the proper modules to
deal with it (See copy of /var/log/messages, line 521).
Comment 1 Christopher Robbins 2005-08-19 12:53:06 UTC 
Created attachment 46686 [details]
/var/log/messages
Comment 2 Marco Michna 2005-08-19 14:45:45 UTC 
First thing ... a Treo 650 connects via a serial connection - as you may have noticed 
in the logs. There you can read that it connects to ttyUSB0 adn ttyUSB1. 
So if you want to use your Treo then your user has to be in the group uucp. 
Access to serial devices will not be granted by default. There could be    
a modem connected which would open a hole for dialers. So there is nothing about 
complaining about this behavior. Te administrator has to decide who is allowed to 
acces this devices. 
 
Second thing ... if you are in the group uucp and still can't connect then you may 
have problems with your USB port. Try to use other ports as well.
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-19 14:55:45 UTC 
Ludwig added code to the resmgr (after beta2) to grant users access to PDAs 
and we might warn with the suseplugger about this - but for now we miss the 
hardware to test this.
Comment 4 Ludwig Nussel 2005-08-19 15:02:18 UTC 
I'd not recommend adding users to group uucp, that group has even more access  
rights than just serial ports. To grant access only to serial ports use  
"resmgr grant $USER modem".  
  
Anyways, I've submitted a hal-resmgr that will give access to pda serial  
devices by default. Could you please attach the output of lshal nevertheless  
so we can check whether it would match your device as well?
Comment 5 Adrian Schröter 2005-08-19 15:14:12 UTC 
I can hand you a PALM.
Comment 6 Marco Michna 2005-08-19 15:21:50 UTC 
I have a Treo 270
Comment 7 Christopher Robbins 2005-08-19 22:01:38 UTC 
Created attachment 46741 [details]
lshal output

Here's the lshal output.  I tried

> resmgr grant robbinsc modem 

And the detection worked just fine.  Thanks.
Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2006-03-08 14:03:42 UTC 
according to #4 it's fixed for 10.0