Gnome Pilot: Initalize palmOne Treo under FC3

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon May 2 18:47:59 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 14:12 -0400, Charles E. White wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Linux using Fedora Core 3 and a palmOne Treo (Palm OS
> 5.2.1). I've Googled, searched the fedora-list archive, and executed
> instruction found at http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gnome-pilot/. Two
> error messages follow:
> 
> Error Message 1:
> [root at localhost chuck]# pilot-xfer -l
>    No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
>    Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'
>    ERROR: No such file or directory (2)
> 
>    Error accessing: '/dev/pilot'. Does '/dev/pilot' exist?
>    Please use --help for more information
> 
> Error Message 2 (obtained from '/dev/pilot'):
> This link can't be used, because its target "/dev/ttyUSB1" doesn't
> exist.
> 
> Additional Background:
> FC3 Machine: Sony Vaio PCG-GRX520 (Laptop with no old style serial
> ports)
> FC3 Updates: All installed using up2date
> Random Observation on '/dev/': Browsing the directory, I don't see any
> ttyUSBx.
> 
> If you've read this far, you're a real trooper! Thanks for your time and
> I hope you can help.
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Craig




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