pilot usb settings

[Ben Steeves]

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:32:23 -0400, Greg Swallow <gswallow at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> where # is 0, 1, then 2
> 
> ln -s /dev/ttyUSB# /dev/pilot (create default /dev for gnome-pilot)
> 
> chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB# (0, 1, and 2)
> chmod 666 /dev/pilot (the new /dev)
> 

Your instructions are a little unclear -- are you saying you should do
the link (the ln command) for all three files?  'Cos that won't work
-- once the first file is linked to that file name (/dev/pilot), ln
will give you the error message that the file already exists.  The
/dev/pilot link needs to be made *only* to the /dev/ttyUSB? device on
which your particular device passes data (although they all open two
channels, only one is used for data -- the other is (at a guess) for
communication control).

On a Tungsten-line handheld, that port is /dev/ttyUSB1.  On an m5xx,
it's /dev/ttyUSB0.  To figure out which it is for your particular
device, kill off gpilotd, and try the following (after changing the
permissions on the ports as above)...

pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB{0 or 1} -l

...which will print a list of all the databases on your handheld (if
the connection port was the correct one).  If it just hangs, do a
Ctrl-C and try the other port.

-- 
Ben Steeves
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