Palm, Fedora Core 3 and Jpilot
Robert Hart
hartr at interweft.com.au
Wed Jan 12 22:20:18 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 09:03 -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
> The proper way to do it is to change the permission
> settings back to the way they were, and add your
> username to group uucp. Doing it that way allows
> the system to be used by different users.
Hmm - I have changed nothing - the system set these up for me!
> > [root at bree dev]# ls -l | grep -y usb
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 12 20:45 pilot -> ttyUSB1
> > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Jan 12 20:45 ttyUSB0
> > crw------- 1 hartr uucp 188, 1 Jan 12 20:45 ttyUSB1
> >
>
> That should be :
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188,...
>
> As you can see group uucp has read/write permission.
>
> Anytime you need access to a device that has group
> read/write, add your username to that group rather
> than mess with the permissions.
Yup - quite happy with how user/groups operate (have been running Linux
sine 1993), but I have not changed anything from the way the system sets
things up, except to add /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules as previously
mentioned.
As you can see, the Palm is picked up on USB0 and USB1, but the two
'created on the fly' ports are created differently - one ends up being
owned by me and the other by root/uucp.
Now - I've just realised that the Jpilot error message is occurring as
soon as I tell it to synch with my Pilot (on port /dev/pilot) - which is
quite reasonable as that port does not exist until it's created on the
fly and linked to the newly created /dev/ttyUSB1 by the new hardware
subsystem.
This presents a real problem - so (after adding hartr to the uucp group)
I tried setting Jpilot to look at /dev/ttyUSB1 - but still no synch.
Is there anyone here who has successfully used Jpilot and FC3 to synch
with their Palm Pilot.
(btw - I can't get the Gnome Pilot set up to work either...)
Sigh - this is a show stopper for me as I absolutely depend on my Palm!
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Robert Hart hartr at interweft.com.au
+61 (0)438 385 533
Brisbane, Australia http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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