Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup
Got it working with Evolution. Thanks for the piece of Perl that helped
a lot by fixing the biggest problem I had getting the entries under
/dev. Works great now thanks for the help.
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 09:59, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
> james martinez <jmarti16@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
>
> > Can anyone tell me where I can get it. Thanks for any help.
>
> You need to set up the various USB devices properly. The Handspring
> Visor mini-HOWTO may be helpful; there's a copy at
> <http://www.icewalk.com/doclib/howtos/mini/Handspring-Visor.html>.
>
> I have had "set up Visor" on my TODO list for a long time, and your
> mail was a good motivator. 8^)= I followed the instructions in the
> mini-HOWTO and my Visor is now working. (Well, with jpilot. getting
> kpilot and gnome-pilot going is next.)
>
> Some notes:
>
> a) this piece of Perl will create the devices:
> perl -e 'foreach $i ( 0 .. 15 ) { `mknod /dev/ttyUSB$i c 188 $i` }'
> b) don't forget to 'chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB*'
> c) I couldn't get 'coldsync' (from unstable) to work properly; it
> would either give errors or seg fault. jpilot did work, however, so
> if you have coldsync issues, you might want to give it a try.
>
> Good luck,
> john.
> --
> I WILL FINISH WHAT I STA
>
> Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 8F05
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