/dev/pilot does not exist

[Jesus M. Rodriguez]

Here's a link to my blog entry on how I got my Sony Clie to work with 
Fedora Core 2.

Jesus

fedora wrote:

>Situation-
>/dev/pilot does not exist
>
>What I am trying to do-
>sync palm Vx with Evolution1.4 on fc2
>
>Spec
>Palm Vx OS_3.5 after hard reset
>Serial cradle connected
>Evolution 1.4 never been synced before
>
>What I have tried...after Googling and fedora archive-
>
>1_ originally I thought it was permissions
>[root at blue root]# chmod 0666 /dev/pilot
>chmod: cannot access `/dev/pilot': No such file or directory
>
>and
>
>[root at blue root]# pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l
> 
>   The device /dev/pilot does not exist..
>   Possible solution:
> 
>        mknod /dev/pilot c <major> <minor>
> 
>   Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
>   Please use --help for more information
> 
>
>2_Well, I know ttyS0 and ttyS1 do exist...
>
>[root at blue root]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0-4]
>/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
>/dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
>/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
>/dev/ttyS4, UART: unknown, Port: 0x0000, IRQ: 0
>
>?Advice please..
>Should I make a soft link between ttyS0 and /dev/pilot...?
>
>or something with mknod? I did a man mknod, but do not understand what
>should be done.
>
>tia
>chris
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