On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 12:46, fedora wrote: > Situation- > /dev/pilot does not exist > > What I am trying to do- > sync palm Vx with Evolution1.4 on fc2 > > Spec > Palm Vx OS_3.5 after hard reset > Serial cradle connected > Evolution 1.4 never been synced before > > What I have tried...after Googling and fedora archive- > > 1_ originally I thought it was permissions > [root@blue root]# chmod 0666 /dev/pilot > chmod: cannot access `/dev/pilot': No such file or directory > > and > > [root@blue root]# pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l > > The device /dev/pilot does not exist.. > Possible solution: > > mknod /dev/pilot c <major> <minor> > > Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot > Please use --help for more information > > > 2_Well, I know ttyS0 and ttyS1 do exist... > > [root@blue root]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0-4] > /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 > /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 > /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 > /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 > /dev/ttyS4, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0 > > ?Advice please.. > Should I make a soft link between ttyS0 and /dev/pilot...? > > or something with mknod? I did a man mknod, but do not understand what > should be done. > > tia > chris > > -- > Certified Microsoft-free e-mail. I just changed pilot device to /dev/ttyS0 and it worked, so far it's the only thing on the port so no problems. Tim...
