Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

From: Alan Chandler (alan_at_chandlerfamily.org.uk)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:16:01 +0000

    On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:10, Alan Chandler wrote:
    > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:35, Hubert Chan wrote:
    > > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
    > >
    > > Alan> I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I
    > > Alan> have read assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that
    > > Alan> /dev/usb/tts/* exists.
    > >
    > > Alan> The directory certainly does, but it is empty.
    > >
    > > I'm not sure about the m505, but with my Visor, /dev/usb/tts/ only gets
    > > populated when I hit the hotsync button (and becomes empty shortly after
    > > the hotsync is complete).
    >
    > Bingo, that seems to be it - I get two devices, a 0 and 1 created when I
    > hit the hotsync button. Which one needs to be symlinked to /dev/pilot ? --

    OK - I added commands in /etc/devfsd/conf.d to symlink /dev/pilot (and /dev/
    palm) to /dev/tts/1 when the hotsync button is pressed.

    However gnome-pilot still just hangs when trying to sync for the first time.
    Any idea what I should do next? 

    -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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