jpilot won't sync with Palm IIIe

[Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>]

Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection
pda.  Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm
broke.  

I entered the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot", and then tried, via
jpilot, to sync.  It did establish a sync connection, but gave me the
following error message:

dlp_ReadSysInfo error
Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_PI_CONNECT
Finished

I've been able to sync with pilot-link, via the command line, but not
with jpilot.  I figure there must be some simple solution to this
(fixing the frontend), since the backend works.

So, if anyone has any suggestions, please shoot them my way.

Mark

PS, I have already queried the jpilot community, who are puzzled by
this (they feel it should just work).  So, I thought that perhaps this
had something to do with how jpilot works with Debian, that people
here could hopefully enlighten me to.

I'm using:  pilot-link 0.12.1-5, jpilot 0.99.9.2-1, Debian Etch
2.6.18-4-686.