SynCE problem on Fedora 14 and iPAQ 214

[alex-kas]

Dear experts,

Since I found most of the useful advises here in these forums, I'm now asking directly because I'm weird.
I have a laptop with Fedora 14 x64 all up to date and I have an iPAQ 214.
I simply want to connect them via USB cable to make use of syncing soft and transfer files. The most frustrating fact is that everything worked in Fedora 13. Moreover, everything worked after UPGRADE to Fedora 14. For some other reason I did a clean install of Fedora 14. Now SynCE does not work and practically nothing what I can imagine helps.
Curiously, both after the UPGRADE and after the clean install the kernel is the same:
2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64
AND no changes in the PDA.
Technically: the linux box is up to date as for the moment of this posting. I tried to disable the firewall completely, I do not have ANY message from Selinux. I tried to turn on and off "Additional functionality" for the USB connection on PDA.
I cannot understand the basic moment: is it a bug somewhere or something is missing?

If the extra functionality is OFF I get something like this:

# tail -n 30 /var/log/messages
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.344167] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.469316] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=1016
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.469325] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.469333] usb 2-1: Product: HP Serial
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.469338] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: HP
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.469341] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 19bf5000-e077-0801-4850-001cc4ffdaa6
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.619934] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.619957] USB Serial support registered for generic
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.620576] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.620580] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.677837] USB Serial support registered for PocketPC PDA
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.678551] ipaq 2-1:1.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.679392] usb 2-1: PocketPC PDA converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.679411] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipaq
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom kernel: [ 1535.679413] ipaq: v1.0:USB PocketPC PDA driver
Nov 19 12:47:08 phantom modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) opening serial device...
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom pppd[3565]: Warning: can't open options file /root/.ppprc: Permission denied
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom kernel: [ 1535.992852] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom pppd[3568]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom pppd[3568]: Serial connection established.
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom pppd[3568]: Using interface ppp0
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom pppd[3568]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
Nov 19 12:47:09 phantom kernel: [ 1536.808222] PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Nov 19 12:47:10 phantom pppd[3568]: local  IP address 192.168.131.1
Nov 19 12:47:10 phantom pppd[3568]: remote IP address 192.168.131.129
Nov 19 12:47:11 phantom ntpd[1633]: Listen normally on 7 ppp0 192.168.131.1 UDP 123
Nov 19 12:47:26 phantom modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) closing serial device...

# pls
** Message: Device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_1016_19bf5000_e077_0801_4850_001cc4ffdaa6_if0_serial_usb_0 not fully set in Hal, skipping
** Message: Odccm is not running, ignoring
pls: Could not find configuration at path '(Default)'

And ppp0 is in the output of ifconfig.

If the extra functionality is ON I get something like this:

# tail -12 /var/log/messages
Nov 19 13:00:14 phantom kernel: [ 2321.702106] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
Nov 19 13:00:15 phantom kernel: [ 2321.821213] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=1c1d
Nov 19 13:00:15 phantom kernel: [ 2321.821222] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov 19 13:00:15 phantom kernel: [ 2321.821230] usb 2-3: Product: HP RNDIS
Nov 19 13:00:15 phantom kernel: [ 2321.821234] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: HP
Nov 19 13:00:15 phantom kernel: [ 2321.821238] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: 19bf5000-e077-0801-4850-001cc4ffdaa6
Nov 19 13:01:05 phantom kernel: [ 2372.109076] rndis_host 2-3:1.0: RNDIS init failed, -110
Nov 19 13:01:05 phantom kernel: [ 2372.109109] rndis_host: probe of 2-3:1.0 failed with error -110
Nov 19 13:01:10 phantom kernel: [ 2377.111438] rndis_wlan 2-3:1.0: RNDIS init failed, -110
Nov 19 13:01:10 phantom kernel: [ 2377.111549] rndis_wlan: probe of 2-3:1.0 failed with error -110

# pls
** Message: Hal reports no devices connected
** Message: Odccm is not running, ignoring
pls: Could not find configuration at path '(Default)'

# lsmod |grep rndis
rndis_wlan             48794  0 
rndis_host             10242  1 rndis_wlan
cdc_ether               9612  1 rndis_host
usbnet                 28738  3 rndis_wlan,rndis_host,cdc_ether
cfg80211              134709  4 rndis_wlan,iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

And NOTHING new in ifconfig output apart from eth0 and wlan0

Any clues? What can be wrong?

Before the clean install everything was smooth and once connected I could use synce-kpm or mount filesystems with Fur, or whatever else. Now not. Why?

Thanks in advance for each and every comment.

Regards,
Alex

[Rubberman]

My guess is that the upgrade worked because some packages that were installed in FC13 were not in the clean install of FC14. You need to determine what packages you had installed previously that are not now.