On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 22:34 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096 > > Thank you for that link. However, it is full of advice that is hard to > follow. Things like "Change /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules so that > udev does not touch the Palm ttyUSB device nodes", which is something I > don't know how to do. > > Anyway, I did my best to try and follow some of the instructions. It > said to press the hotsync button on the palm, and then "cp -a" the files > that appear, and then change the permissions on the resulting files. So > I tried that and got this result: > > [root at localhost dev]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/pilot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 22:25 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Sep 3 22:25 /dev/ttyUSB0 > crw------- 1 dave uucp 188, 1 Sep 3 22:25 /dev/ttyUSB1 > [root at localhost dev]# cp -a /dev/pilot pilot > > ... but wait. If I name the file the same thing, then it says file > already exists. If I name it something else, it has nothing to do with > the files that Jpilot is looking for. > > Can someone break this down into something a little simpler? I'm a > newbie here, and the wealth of information on that page isn't exactly > designed to be easily accessible. > > Dave > > Dave .... did you create a file named: /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules and put this in it: BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB[13579]", SYMLINK="pilot" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050903/c99a7538/attachment-0005.sig>