[wellylug] HotSyncing USB Palms

Colin Klenner colink at clear.net.nz
Sun Mar 28 15:29:12 NZST 2004


On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 13:54, Robin Hinde wrote:
> This is actually for Colin, but other members might find this useful.
> 
> Quite some time was spent trying to get an Acer s60 talking to Linux at the 
> Hutt meeting last Thursday. The problem was finding what the Palm device 
> actually appears on the system as. That's hard without any documentation.
> 
> Turns out that the answer (on my system, Mandrake 10) is: /dev/ttyUSB1
> 
> If you point K or J Pilot to that device, HotSyncing works fine. You have to 
> press the cradle HotSync button before clicking the Sync button in the 
> software, as /dev/ttyUSB1 doesn't exist until the cradle button is pressed.
> 
> I suppose the correct way is to create a link /dev/pilot that points to 
> /dev/ttyUSB1
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO/pc-connect.html has some quite relevant 
> information.
> 
> HTH
> 
>   -=rjh=-

Thanks Robin,
This was an Acer Pilot from Dick Smith, wasn't it? Great to hear a resolution for all the efforts
that went into trying to make this work on the night. Well done!
Regards
-- 
Colin Klenner <colink at clear.net.nz>




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