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Re: Palm conectivity



John

> > I put /dev/usb/tts/1 into the "Serial port entry" and tried a
> > backup. Jpilot responded with;
> > 
> > 	pi_bind illegal seek
> > 	Check your serial port and settings
> > 	exiting with status -10
> > 
> > I am not quite sure what I have missed, but there is clearly a port
> > problem here. Can anyone hold my hand a little further?
> 
> well, _are_ you actually using devfs? i'm going to go out on a limb
> and guess that you're not. in that case, you want to point jpilot at
> /dev/ttyUSB1, which should look like this:
> 
>     [08:16:35]{mendel}<~> ls -al /dev/ttyUSB1
>     crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     188,   1 Mar  3 09:52 /dev/ttyUSB1
> 
> if you don't have /dev/ttyUSB1, you can make it by switching to root
> and typing 'mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1'.

I am actually ahead of you here. I do have /dev/ttyUSB1 and have already tried that. The error message remains the same	:-(


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  Keith O'Connell.
  Maidstone, Kent. (UK)
  keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk


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