Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 2:43 am, rick47@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Since someone has been able to connect, sync I presume, with jpilot in
> suse 10, can you give me some guidance?  I am used to setting a softlink
> from /dev/pilot or some such to /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1, but I do
> not see either in my new 10 install.  Am I missing it somewhere, or do I
> need to create one of these for the sync?  I do recall reading, but not
> seeing the application of, the release notes about hotplugging.  I could
> copy the old device names from my old 9.3, not fully discarded yet. 
> Would this be the way to go?
I have /dev/ttyUSB1 set up in my jpilot preferences, and it works fine. 
But, /dev/ttyUSB1 does not exists until you press the hot sync button:
usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
gaf@sauron:~> ls -l /dev/ttyU*
crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 0 2005-11-09 08:53 /dev/ttyUSB0
crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 1 2005-11-09 08:53 /dev/ttyUSB1
visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from 
ttyUSB0
visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from 
ttyUSB1
visor 3-2:1.0: device disconnected
gaf@sauron:~> ls -l /dev/ttyU*
/bin/ls: /dev/ttyU*: No such file or directory


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