Palm sync

[Mauri Sahlberg]

pe, 2004-03-05 kello 00:23, msjones773 kirjoitti:
> >>> I was able to get my Handera palm to sync with gnome pilot through my 
> >>> serial port as root. When I log in as user gnome pilot does not
> >>> reconise my palm. I chmod dev/pilot 666 but no luck. When I go to the
> >>> file /dev/pilot it says link broken. Not sure what that means. What

Here is the reason why your first try did not work. You chmoded the
/dev/pilot not the /dev/ttyS0.

> >>> should I try in order to get my palm to sync as user?
> >>    
> Well, I don't have a usb Visor so I didn't try that. What I did do was 
> delete my /dev/palm file and start over. I logged in as root and typed 
> into terminal: "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot" (without quotations).
>  Then: chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0

Here you chmoded the right "file" and that is why it worked this time.

Regards,
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