OT: Pilot help please

[taharka]

Howdy,

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 21:36 -0700, Robert Bell wrote:
> I'd I've spent a few days on this so now I'm begginf for help. I have a 
> Palm TX. I was running FC4 but am now using FC5 but that doesnt seems to 
> help.
> 
> GNOME: I gave up gpilotd crashes or just does nothing. Got some help via 
> bugzilla in FC4 that stopped the crashes but it never sync'd/
> 
> So now I'm trying KDE and kpilot.
> 
> When I plug my pilot in I see this:
> Apr  4 21:25:56 mckinley kernel: usb 4-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
> converter now attached to ttyUSB0
> Apr  4 21:25:56 mckinley kernel: usb 4-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
> converter now attached to ttyUSB1
> 
> but sometimes ( for no apparent reason) its:
> Apr  4 21:25:56 mckinley kernel: usb 4-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
> converter now attached to ttyUSB2
> Apr  4 21:25:56 mckinley kernel: usb 4-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
> converter now attached to ttyUSB3
> 
> kpilot works if I happen to have it configured doe the right device but 
> it seems to switch from USB1 to USB3 at random. After a sync it will 
> disconnect and reconnect sometimes as the same but often as a different 
> device. Is there any way to tell fedora to ALWAYS use USB0/1??

Check out the following blog (in particular the March 30th entry) &
website. Between both links, you may possibly solve the problem ;-)

http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/blogs.php

http://www.pilot-link.org/

> Thanks

You're welcome.

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.