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  • TR tmst at nethere.com
    Tue Dec 5 02:04:02 EST 2006

     

    On Monday 04 December 2006 06:52, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
    > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 18:22 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
    > > I used toi have to enter the string in the subject line to be able to
    > > sync my Visor with a Debian systemm I put on in 2003. Well, I
    > > installed a new debian system last month and sometime between 2003 and
    > > now ttyUSB disappeared. WHat do I have to do to get it to sync?
    >
    > udev rules should be doing this automatically. Make sure you have a rule
    > like the following somewhere in /etc/udev/rules.d/ (all on one line)
    >
    > BUS=="usb", MODE=="666", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYSFS{product}=="Palm
    > Handheld*|Handspring *", SYMLINK+="pilot"
    >
    > Restart udev after you've adjusted/added this. When you hit HotSync on
    > your Palm, you should see a /dev/pilot symlink created. If not, your
    > module may not be loading properly or your handheld isn't recognized by
    > the system.
    >
    I did the following on my system (linux 2.6.13-15.11-smp, which syncs 
    perfectly with my Zire). There is no such reference to "visor", "Palm", 
    "pilot" or "handheld":
    
    [/etc/udev/rules.d] > grep -i pilot *
    [/etc/udev/rules.d] > grep -i visor *
    [/etc/udev/rules.d] > grep -i zire *
    [/etc/udev/rules.d] >        
    
    I guess it's just magic.
    
    -TR
    
    

     

     

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