Thanks Ben,
My Palm is a Tungsten, so I am doing the following commands separately,
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot
then
chmod 666 /dev/pilot
and then I run the gnome-pilot and try to sync.
Still not seeing the unit, although it did when I ran JDS a while ago,
so I will mess around a little more,
Thanks again for the support,
norman
Ben Steeves wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:32:23 -0400, Greg Swallow <gswallow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
where # is 0, 1, then 2
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB# /dev/pilot (create default /dev for gnome-pilot)
chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB# (0, 1, and 2)
chmod 666 /dev/pilot (the new /dev)
Your instructions are a little unclear -- are you saying you should do
the link (the ln command) for all three files? 'Cos that won't work
-- once the first file is linked to that file name (/dev/pilot), ln
will give you the error message that the file already exists. The
/dev/pilot link needs to be made *only* to the /dev/ttyUSB? device on
which your particular device passes data (although they all open two
channels, only one is used for data -- the other is (at a guess) for
communication control).
On a Tungsten-line handheld, that port is /dev/ttyUSB1. On an m5xx,
it's /dev/ttyUSB0. To figure out which it is for your particular
device, kill off gpilotd, and try the following (after changing the
permissions on the ports as above)...
pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB{0 or 1} -l
...which will print a list of all the databases on your handheld (if
the connection port was the correct one). If it just hangs, do a
Ctrl-C and try the other port.
--
Norman LeCouvie
Norman
LeCouvie
Executive Director -
Government Sector
International Americas
Sun
Microsystems Inc.
613-787-5229
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