Jpilot problem resolved

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 18:53 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Found two shell scripts that allowed me to take an earlier backup and
> restore it.
> 
> Here inline are the two script contents 
> 
> For backup
> sudo pilot-xfer  -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b $HOME/jpilot/backup
> 
> For restore
> sudo pilot-xfer  -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -r $HOME/jpilot/backup
> 
> I jpilot does not work for you  put this file into /etc/udev/rules.d 
> 
> name of file is 10-visor.rules  
> 
> content is:
> 
> BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*",
> KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]",SYMLINK+="pilot"
> 
> (as a single line)
> 
> And if it still does not work...
> Add one line to the bottom of the following file.
> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> 
> /sbin/modprobe --firsttime visor   
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You said you had it connected but it wiped out the data...

cp /usr/share/pilot-link/udev/60-libpisock.rules /etc/udev/rules.d

I'm not sure that you need that '10-visor.rules' thing w/ F7 or newer

Craig