Pilot syncing....

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 02:15 -0500, pursley1 at netscape.net wrote:
> The problem I encountered, with the help of someone else, was that 
> libusb does not, but should, give R-W access of the USB ports to users.  
> I think this is a major oversite with whoever packages libusb and 
> absolutely *NEEDS* to be included as an option.  Without this fixed, it 
> is impossible to access your Palm unless you are logged in as root.

It works for me out of the box, and I did nothing special. Sounds like
the problem isn't with libusb as such. The Usual Suspect nowadays seems
to be ConsoleKit. Failing that, take a look
at /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libpisock.rules where udev sets up permissions.

poc

> Bradley
> 
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 16:52 -0700, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> >   
> >> Add to /etc/rc.local at the bottom
> >>
> >> ## added for palm pilot or sony cle
> >> /sbin/modprobe --first-time visor
> >>     
> >
> > Only for older versions of pilot-link. New versions use libusb instead
> > of the visor module and in my experience work better (in fact you should
> > make sure 'visor' is *not* loaded).
> >
> > poc
> >
> >   
>