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10.3: Make Palm HotSync work in Panther
Authored by: wcattey on Feb 10, '04 12:36:10AM

For those of you still having trouble getting Palm HotSync to work
in Panther, I have a new bit of lore that may be of value:

Plug your Palm USB Serial adapter into the Apple Keyboard's USB hub!

Detail:

I have a 1.25GHz iMac that was installed fresh with Panther, and I
JUST TODAY got it to Sync successfully.

Plugging the Palm HotSync USB adapter into any of the USB ports on the main logic board did not succeed. None of the lore (and I tried it ALL) got
things right.

I assembled a similar setup at the office on an older iMac and it worked.
Yes, Virginia, PalmDesktop 4.1 installed with Pseudo on a CLEAN install of 10.3 (updated to 10.3.2) and uncopressed with StuffIt 7.0.3 that comes vanilla with the Panther distribution, DOES work even with the ancient PalmVx.

Noticing this fact, I went back to my new iMac and plugged the Palm USB Serial adapter into the USB hub on the Apple keyboard, and TA DA! Sync worked.

I've got a bug open to Apple now reporting all this.



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Yep, that worked
Authored by: jamesg on Feb 13, '04 12:59:01PM

I can confirm that this previous hint worked.

Running 10.3.2, clean install of Palm Desktop 4.1 by dragging on Pseudo (Kyocera 6035 with PalmConnect USB Adapter).

It absolutely would not sync connected to my USB hub.

The second I plugged into the keyboard port it worked.


Why, Why, Why.



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Yep, that worked
Authored by: wcattey on Feb 13, '04 10:03:13PM

I actually think its a USB 2.0 subtlety.
I'm hoping that the USB wizards at Apple sort it out.
I'm gratified to hear it worked for you!



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