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I have a Palm Treo 680 which I'd like to use as a media remote, using Palm MPC. Almost the exact instructions on that page used to work perfectly for establishing a PPP connection over the USB cable; I think I last tried it in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). In Karmic, I find that /dev/ttyUSB{0,1}
are not present by default, and when I modprobe visor
to get them, the Palm immediately crashes and reboots, as seen in Ubuntu bug 522753 (it reboots again as long as the module is still loaded and USB is still connected). The usbserial
module has the same result.
From reading that bug and elsewhere, it appears that the visor
module is abandoned, and jpilot
and friends use some other approach to talk to PalmOS over USB these days, which might not even involve a ttyUSB
device. My question is, therefore:
How do I create a PPP connection between PalmOS and Karmic without crashing the Palm?
Thanks! Removed modem-manager, rebooted and everything works. :-) – Chris Boyle – 2010-06-15T08:46:36.457