Bugzilla – Bug 105824
USB Detection in KPilot does not function properly
Last modified: 2006-03-08 14:03:42 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).
Created attachment 46686 [details] /var/log/messages
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.
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.
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?
I can hand you a PALM.
I have a Treo 270
Created attachment 46741 [details] lshal output Here's the lshal output. I tried > resmgr grant robbinsc modem And the detection worked just fine. Thanks.
according to #4 it's fixed for 10.0