USB Palm, Was: Re: FC5 Step Backwards: WAS: Mostly off topic, Evolution question

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:50 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Wed, April 26, 2006 7:11 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said:
> > On Wed, April 26, 2006 3:01 pm, Rick Stevens said:
> >> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:18 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> >>> On Wed, April 26, 2006 10:47 am, Rick Stevens said:
> >>> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:52 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> >>> >> I have FC5 on a laptop, as well as the newest Ubuntu. I spent the last
> >> Palm and Linux have always been problematical.  That being said, I've
> >> gotten my old Handspring Prism, Tapwave Z2 and Tungsten E2 to work just
> >> fine via both USB and bluetooth on both FC4 and FC5.  It does take a bit
> >> of fiddling, but it works.
> >
> > I'll have to fiddle with the USB owner issues again and see if FC5 works
> > better than RH8.0 which is the last time I got serious. Interesting that
> > Ubuntu works out of the box with no twiddling.
> 
> Okay, I just added my loginname to /etc/group behind uucp and now it syncs
> flawlessly first time, every time. Man if it was this easy on RH8/FC3/FC4,
> I'd have been a lot happier all along...

I changed the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB in the hotplug stuff instead of
adding my username to the uucp group.  End result is the same.

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