I have found that if you hit the Palms HotSink first ( check lsusb ). Once lsusb sees it then hit the Jpilot "Sync" button works here Running SuSE 10 Beta 4 and a home brew kernel. David McMillan wrote:
Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'm trying to use KPilot under 10.0; like several other things, it used to work for me, albeit awkwardly, under 9.1. But now I can't get the connection going, and KPilot gives me the message that /dev/pilot doesn't exist.
pwa@suillus:~> ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 0 2005-11-14 21:23 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw----+ 1 root uucp 188, 1 2005-11-14 21:23 /dev/ttyUSB1
These devices go away when the Palm gives up on the connection.
KPilot is set to look for /dev/pilot, looks like. You probably need to *create* /dev/pilot as a symlink to /dev/ttyUSB1 (for some reason, Palm devices always show up as two connections, and the second one is generally the one that works). Alternatively, set KPilot to point to /dev/ttyUSB1 instead of /dev/pilot. One thing to look out for, that I've run into: if your connection hiccups for some reason, and you hit the Sync button on the Palm again, sometimes that will create two *new* connections, /dev/ttyUSB3 and 4, b/c 0 and 1 need some time to die. So keep an eye on dmesg.
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