Some time ago my laptop system got upgraded to a new kernel. This is 2.6.24-21. I did not notice any problems with this except the normal problem when upgrading to a new kernel. I had to rebuild the Ethernet driver, but that’s as expected.

Today i was going to sync my palmpilot and I did as I usually did. Put the palm in the cradel. Press the sync and it all started. Wait – it did not. Noting happend for a long time and then i finally got the errro message on the palm that it could not connect to the computer.

I did some investigation and found this on the web. Apparently there is a bug in the 2.6.24 kernel that prevents the visor module to work. And as its not working the usb devices is not created and the kpilot will not be able to sync.

I did some test with different settings and could not get this to work in any way.

So i did unload the visor drive and uses the pilot-xfer program directly to get a backup atleast so i can do my timesheet.

This will start pilot-xfer and connect it to the usb. When you then press the sync button it starts the sync and get all the apps and dbs over. I can then use teh tmp/palm_backup directory to get some of the db files into my timesheet progtam