Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot
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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