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  • Michael Havens bmike1 at gmail.com
    Tue Dec 5 07:13:37 EST 2006

     

    oh wait.... you have BOTH visor and zire listed. Why is this?
    The '>' writes the text into the directory?  So then does this link
    all of these together?
    
    On 12/5/06, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
    > Buddy.... computers are magic!!!!
    > I think for the last line I should substitute 'visor *' for 'zire *'.
    > Or should it be 'handspring *'?
    > [/etc/udev/rules.d] > grep -i pilot *
    > [/etc/udev/rules.d] > grep -i visor *
    > [/etc/udev/rules.d] > grep -i zire *
    >
    >
    >
    > On 12/5/06, TR <tmst at nethere.com> wrote:
    > > 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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