Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:35, 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).
The equivalent happens with non-devfs systems as well. /dev/ttyUSB[01]
becomes "real" serial ports only after the PDA initiates a connection
(either through HotSync or Network).
Don't know why that is so. I think this behaviour is common to all
PalmOS devices with USB cradles.
--
Steven Yap <syap@shaw.ca>
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