Linux and the Treo

I got a new notebook a while ago and put debian on it. While I had my treo running on my old notebook running debian without a problem I couldn't get my new notebook to synch using jpilot or any of the other standards. I just tried again and now I know what I was doing wrong.

I had jpilot and pilot-link etc and I'm running the 2.6.28-1 amd 64 debian standard linux kernel. Each time I would press the hotsync button on my palm, I'd get something like

[245227.264134] usb 6-1: USB disconnect, address 9
[245228.000084] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 10
[245228.166546] usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[245228.171749] usb 6-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0830, idProduct=0061
[245228.171755] usb 6-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[245228.171761] usb 6-1: Product: Palm Handheld
[245228.171764] usb 6-1: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc.
[245228.171768] usb 6-1: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678

And if I hotsynched again then the address would go up by 1. The instructions I found told me to select a /tty/usb? device with jpilot.

Today I found that I'm supposed to use usb:

Then it works fine :-) I don't know whether this option wasn't there last time I tried it with earlier versions of the kernel or whether I just found really old howto documents. Anyway now it's on this blog next time I forget I can find the answer...