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Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot



on Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:10:42AM +0000, Alan Chandler (alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:16:01AM +0000, Alan Chandler 
> (alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:
> 
> > > 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?
> >
> > Hit the 'sync' button on the Palm cradle *first*.  The USB device isn't
> > activated until it gets the external request.
> >
> 
> I tried that, but gnome pilot still didn't pick up on it.

I found my /dev/pilot symlink had got moved somehow in the past week or
so.  Relinked it to:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 Dec 31 14:50 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1

...which fixed things.

Bad postinst?


Peace.

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