[jp] Treo 700p: Still Not There

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  • Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
    Thu Jun 28 10:40:45 EDT 2007

     

    On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, jpilot-ml at gory.org wrote:
    
    > What I found I had to do was hit HotSync on the Treo first in order for
    > linux to see the device and create the /dev/pilot symlink to whichever of
    > the /dev/ttyUSBX device files it wanted.  Then I'd hit sync from jpilot
    > and it'd work.
    
    > Hopefully that'll work for you as it was the only sequence that did for me.
    
    Charlie,
    
       I've tried that; and the suggestion of someone local to me to click the
    Treo cable button, cancel it on the screen, then click on the jpilot link
    button. It's not working.
    
       I think the problem is with port naming. /var/log/messages shows the
    connections on, for example, ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1. However, unless I change
    /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules, there are no ttyUSB devices. There are
    /dev/tts/USB0 and /dev/tts/USB1 devices (the plain serial ports are
    /dev/tts/0-4), and that's what jpilot wants in the port setting. Jpilot does
    not recognize ttyUSBn. Even when I make a symlink /dev/pilot ->
    /dev/tts/USB1, jpilot does not connect because -- I think -- the kernel is
    seeing the connection as ttyUSB1.
    
       This is all well beyond my linux knowledge, particularly in what is for me
    the arcane discussion of the relative values of udev and devfs. I just want
    to learn how to have the ports named consistently so the PDA will talk with
    the desktop.
    
       The two successful pilot-xfer connections specifed '-p /dev/tts/USB1' on
    the command line. So, why jpilot is not happy with that I've no idea.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Rich
    
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