On Monday 02 May 2005 12:47, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 14:12 -0400, Charles E. White wrote: > > I'm a newbie to Linux using Fedora Core 3 and a palmOne Treo (Palm OS > > 5.2.1). I've Googled, searched the fedora-list archive, and executed > > instruction found at http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gnome-pilot/. Two > > error messages follow: > > > > Error Message 1: > > [root@localhost chuck]# pilot-xfer -l > > No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given. > > Defaulting to '/dev/pilot' > > ERROR: No such file or directory (2) > > > > Error accessing: '/dev/pilot'. Does '/dev/pilot' exist? > > Please use --help for more information > > > > Error Message 2 (obtained from '/dev/pilot'): > > This link can't be used, because its target "/dev/ttyUSB1" doesn't > > exist. > > > > Additional Background: > > FC3 Machine: Sony Vaio PCG-GRX520 (Laptop with no old style serial > > ports) > > FC3 Updates: All installed using up2date > > Random Observation on '/dev/': Browsing the directory, I don't see any > > ttyUSBx. > > > > If you've read this far, you're a real trooper! Thanks for your time and > > I hope you can help. > > ---- > http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php > > Craig If it's a udev issue (i.e. the device goes away when not in use) then this may help: Try creating a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules with this content: BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="pilot" Seemed to do the trick for me. If it doesn't work, you can also try adding a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions with this content: ttyUSB1:$local:uucp:0660 For more info, look at this site: http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096
