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

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 12:16 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Thu, April 27, 2006 10:28 am, Rick Stevens said:
> > 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.
> 
> I did that first and had no luck.

Really?  Gee, I just modified:

	KERNEL=="ttyUSB*",              GROUP="uucp", MODE="0660"

to

	KERNEL=="ttyUSB*",              GROUP="uucp", MODE="0666"

in "/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules".  Yes, it removes a tiny bit of
security, but it works for a lot of stuff without having to whonk
/etc/group or anything.  Besides, I'm a lazy cuss! :-D

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