[CentOS] And now onto the palm pilot with Kpilot
Shawn M. Jones
smj at littleprojects.org
Thu Aug 4 20:58:42 UTC 2005
Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> The Kpilot documentation suggest that I look for the palm pilot at
> /dev/ttyUSB0. That didn't work, but I noticed in my /dev/ directory
> that there was also a ttyUSB1. That didn't work either. But then I
> noticed that both were only apparent when I was hot syncing my Palm,
> so they must be connected to it.
>
> Any ideas, then, as to why Kpilot is not acknowledging them as a Palm
> device the way that lsusb does?
I've wrestled with this one before. I believe that udev creates the
/dev/ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1 once the "sync" button is pressed on the
cradle. I had to do something with udev in order to get it to create a
/dev/pilot symlink to this device on every boot, but at the moment I
don't have access to the machine to tell you what it was.
Also, I suggest trying to start with dlpsh to diagnose any problems. It
is a command line utility for accessing your palm device. I've found
that it gives much better feedback than Kpilot or Gpilot. It is
included with the pilot-link package on CentOS 4.
Hope this helps,
--Shawn
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