kpilot

James A. Giseburt giseburt at molineschools.org
Sat Jul 3 05:00:56 UTC 2004


Good Day!

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 23:39, Timothy Payne wrote:
> Wow! that was a fast reply, thanks but /dev/pilot is not there per using
> locate and scrolling through the dir I thought changing Kpilot from
> /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyS0 would work but it did not.  The log file shows
> it's looking when I make a change but fails.
> 
> Thanks Tim...
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 21:27, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:24:05 -0700, Timothy Payne <tim at tmpco.com> wrote:
> > > Kpilot can't find /dev/pilot I tried changing it to /dev/ttyS0 & 2 I'm
> > > using a ps2 mouse and I tried CUA0 but no luck.  I did look for
> > > /dev/pilot with locate and it's not there.  Any help would help.
> > > 
> > 
> > make a soft link from /dev/ttySx to /dev/pilot, where X is the number
> > of the serial port your Palm's cradle is attached to.  Make sure to
> > also change the permissions to 0666.
> > -- 
> > Ben Steeves
> >             ben.steeves at gmail.com
> >             GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9
> >             http://www.metacon.ca/
> > 

As Ben stated above, create a symbolic link to /dev/pilot and make sure
it has read/write access by issuing the following commands:

	ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/pilot	- where x is the serial port #
	chmod 666 /dev/pilot

Hope this helps!


Jim

James A. Giseburt
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