USB help

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:35:53PM -0700, Ed Skinner wrote:

>      Question: Which HOWTO should I go read that'll tell me the
> basic things such as which kinds of USB devices show up where--I
> presume there is a numbering/naming scheme at work? For example, I'm
> also curious about the Pilot syncing but don't expect ot see it in
> /dev/sda* (or should I?).

While I do not know about the document, I believe the easiest way to
see where things are "on-the-fly" is to run `dmesg` (since what you
want is going to be at the end, `dmesg | tail` is a little cleaner).

As for Palm Pilot synchronization, Palm took the shortcut on this
route. The original palms sync over a serial (RS-232) connection.
When Handspring (and later Palm) implemented USB support, they did so
by emulating RS-232 over USB. That is why the Palm devices sync using
/dev/usb/ttyUSB0, where I believe TTY is a historical acronym
(TeleTYpewriter) commonly associated with serial ports.

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