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Linux Hotplug Script

2005-06-14 Yaron Tausky provides A better way to handle iPAQ auto-connection.

1. With the above udev script and later versions of udev you might want to use DRIVER=="ipaq" ( two equal signs ) if udev gives errors in /var/log/messages

2005-05-19 Ed Catmur suggests some improvements to the hotplug script below.

2004-10-19 If you have the devfs daemon (for example on Gentoo), you can follow Stanislaw Pusep's tips for using "devfsd" instead of "hotplug".

Instructions originally provided by Fredrik Nilsson.

1. First make sure that your connection works with manual operation using synce-serial-start.
2. Make sure that Linux Hotplug is installed on your system. (For RedHat Linux, this is an RPM called hotplug.)
3. Create the directory /var/run/usb if it doesn't already exist.
4. If you are using a Linux Hotplug release prior to the August 8, 2002 release, add a line like below to your /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap file. (This applies to for example RedHat 9 and earlier.)

   If you are using Linux Hotplug released August 8, 2002 or later, create the file /etc/hotplug/synce.usermap with the contents below. (Thanks to Andrew Radke and Mark "Delirium" for this info.)

   synce   0x0003  0xVVVV  0xPPPP  0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00

   Replace VVVV with the USB vendor ID for your device and PPPP with the USB product ID for your device. IDs for common devices:

     Device	Vendor ID	Product ID
     Casio EM500 	07cf	2002
     Compaq iPAQ 	049f	0003
     Dell Axim X5 	413c	4001
     HP Jornada 548	03f0	1016
     HP Jornada 568	03f0	1116
     For devices missing in the list above, find the Vendor and Product IDs for your device.

1. Create the file /etc/hotplug/usb/synce with the following contents (download) and make it executable by root:

#!/bin/bash
       
export time=`date +"%b %d %X"`
export uname=`uname -n`
       
echo "$time $uname $0: iPAQ added" >> /var/log/synce
synce-serial-abort >> /dev/null
synce-serial-start >> /var/log/synce
       
:> $REMOVER
echo "export time=\`date +\"%b %d %X\"\`" >> $REMOVER
echo "export uname=\`uname -n\`" >> $REMOVER
echo "echo \"\$time \$uname $0: iPAQ removed\" >> /var/log/synce" >> $REMOVER
echo "sleep 15 >> /var/log/synce" >> $REMOVER
echo "synce-serial-abort >> /var/log/synce" >> $REMOVER
chmod +x $REMOVER

1. When you have the hotplug script installed you should not run synce-serial-start yourself.