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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