It's a BIG hassle due to udev. From my own experience I can tell that
pilot-link needs to connect to PalmOS within about 10 seconds after
pressing the hotsync button. Unfortunately pilot-link is not prepared
for udev and fails to a missing device node instead of waiting for it to
be created. Even on a dual Opteron machine and a wrapper-script around
pilot-xfer it often takes longer for udev to create the device node than
PalmOS accepts the connection.
The only thing I can suggest is to mknod() and use a ttyUSB1 outside
the /dev tree. I also tried to compile pilot-link with libusb support
but could not get it to work.
Tom
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