Syncing Palm device via USB Cable
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 17:33:10 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:19 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
>
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 02:09 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
> >
> >> With the help of another person, we were able to deduce that the problem
> >> was because of Fedora, which by default, does not give access to the USB
> >> ports to users. There is no group to add to fix this problem and it
> >> took changing the global security permissions to allow everyone full
> >> access to the ports to get it to work. This really should be addressed
> >> on future versions of Fedora so I don't have to re-fix this problem
> >> every time the system updates the security. How do I recommend it?
> >>
> >
> > Which ports are you talking about? If you mean /dev/ttyUSB0 etc., these
> > only come into existence when a USB device is connected. They are
> > configured by the udev subsystem. AFAIK, if you use libusb as I
> > suggested, you don't need to worry about this.
> >
> > poc
> >
> Actually, I do use libusb and it *FINALLY* gave me an error telling me
> why it didn't make it accessible to users. The problem was it was
> configured to look for a group named "dialout", which Fedora never
> created and so was never used. Not sure why but I added the group and
> the problem seems to have resolved.
Interesting. I don't have a group called 'dialout' yet I didn't get this
error.
poc
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