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  • David A. Desrosiers desrod at gnu-designs.com
    Sun Dec 10 13:23:15 EST 2006

     

    On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 09:40 -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
    > I am pretty goofy!
    > In any case upon sync  jpilot responded with:
    >      'no such file or directory'
    > 
    > So I created the directory and it currently responds:
    >     pi_bind error:/dev/pilot 
    
    Ok, wait... stop stop stop! 
    
    What problem are we trying to solve here? You're winding down a very
    ugly, difficult and incorrect path here. 
    
    If you follow the README.usb that came with pilot-link 0.12.1, you
    should be pretty well-prepared to get your Palm syncronizing with your
    Linux machine, barring any Palm/hardware/misconfiguration issues that
    might be specific to your particular setup. 
    
    /dev/pilot is a symlink, created automatically by a udev rule
    (documented in the README.usb HOWTO I've written). It will appear when
    you hit HotSync, and (hopefully, if your kernel and udev rules are
    correct and your Palm device is supported), link /dev/ttyUSB1
    or /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/pilot.
    
    From there, you can then point pilot-xfer, J-Pilot or whatever you want,
    at /dev/pilot and sync. When your Palm stops communicating, that symlink
    (and the referrant device nodes) will disappear. 
    
    Try that, see how far you get.
    
    
    -- 
    David A. Desrosiers
    desrod at gnu-designs.com
    http://gnu-designs.com
    
    "The price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. But it is
    necessary"
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