Visor and SmartCard Reader

[gkedrovs]

Hey, all. Has anyone had any luck configuring the following:

1. Handspring Visor Serial (/dev/ttyS0) sync with Ximian Evolution in KDE desktop environ.
- I can get $ pilot-xfer to find the unit and back up. But, Evolution doesn't see it at all. I'm at a loss.

2. SmartMedia SmartCard Reader (USB).
- I got an awesome Olympus C-2100 UZ digital camera that uses a SmartCard (128meg). I have some super-generic USB SmartMedia card reader. WinDoze is plug and play. Linux has me stumped.
- How do I get the thing recognized and then software installed to get images off the card?

Thanks!

-Greg :-)

[xzseth]

i thought the visor only came with the usb cradle? - i know this will definately work with evolution on red hat 7.3

[gkedrovs]

Actually, my serial cradle is an extra I picked up at Best Buy to use with a notebook I since ditched. I also tried it with the USB cradle, and it didn't work.

I'm thinking it has something to do with my modules (or something like that - remember this IS the newbie site...).

When I do a lsmod as root, I get two entries for my visor. I'm thinking that might be a problem, but I'm stumped on how to fix it. And it seems weird that a BASH command (pilot-xfer) will find the visor and back up the info with no problem. Seems a conf. problem with Evolution.

Thanks! :-)

-Greg

[stuffit]

as far as your smartmedia card thingy, you have to install some scsii and usb modules then mount it as a scsi device.

this is what i did:

insmod scsi_mod
insmod usb-storage

after you do this you should get some message like below:

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Storage-SMC Rev: 0216
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 32001 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured

If you do, thats good. If you don't try + check that you have all the right modules , do a search for smart media usb linux

next you have to make somewhere for it to mount the card , so in the mnt/
directory create a folder called card, or something like that.

next mount the card by typing

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/card

and you should be able to see the files. To make it easier add an entry to the file in the etc/ directory called fstab. this will enable you to mount it easily - i'm not sure what this is, again , do a search.

hope it works ..

[gkedrovs]

Now, that worked like a charm.

Actually, Red Hat had already found the device, so I didn have to insmod anything. They were already there. I just had to mount them. Never done that before.

Neat!

Now... will that setting "stick" when I reboot...?

[gkedrovs]

FYI final follow-up on this stuff.

1. SmartCard Reader
- The fix given above works for each login session. If you want to have the device mountable each time you boot, you must modify /etc/fstab.
- I have this documentation in my Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible on page 399 (ch10: Understanding System Administration; Section: Mounting file systems; Subsection: Using the fstab file to define mountable file systems).
- You will want to mount the device with "user" in field 4 of the table.
- Check man file for more info or write me and I'll see if I can remember what I did...

2. The Visor in Evolution.
- What a no-brainer!
- If you can't get your Palm device to sync with Evolution, logout and log back in as root. Now try it. Worked like a charm for me. That told me one thing: chmod.
- If root can sync but you (user) can't, then it's a simple problem of chmod to change the port device settings allowing you (user) to access (read/write) the device.

Little by little, my Penguin is growing!

-Greg K.