on Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:16:01AM +0000, Alan Chandler (alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:
> 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?
Hit the 'sync' button on the Palm cradle *first*. The USB device isn't
activated until it gets the external request.
Peace.
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