Palm sync

[Andrew Robinson]

msjones773 wrote:
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>> On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:40:36 -0600
>> msjones773 <msjones773 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I was able to get my Handera palm to sync with gnome pilot through 
>>>> my serial port as root. When I log in as user gnome pilot does not
>>>> reconise my palm. I chmod dev/pilot 666 but no luck. When I go to the
>>>> file /dev/pilot it says link broken. Not sure what that means. What
>>>> should I try in order to get my palm to sync as user?
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>> You need the usb-serial and visor modules loaded to use the pilot.  Have
>> you checked to see that they are available when you try to sync?
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>> -- -John (JohnThompson at new.rr.com) --__--__--
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> Well, I don't have a usb Visor so I didn't try that. What I did do was 
> delete my /dev/palm file and start over. I logged in as root and typed 
> into terminal: "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot" (without quotations).
> Then: chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0
> When I opened gnome pilot it instantly recognized my palm and synced to 
> it. Then I logged out as root and logged in as user and tried. Gnome 
> pilot recognized my palm and synced! I think my problem stemmed from the 
> fact that the first time I tried to set it up I was logged in as user 
> and opened a terminal and su to root. The second time I actually logged 
> in as root. I guess that made the difference. Many things to learn as a 
> newbie! Thanks for your help.
> Mark

When I first set up syncing with my Palm, I had some odd problems that 
eventually seemed to go away. In other words, I got it working, but I'm 
not sure what I did.

In the process, I discovered a command-line program that gave me more 
information about what was happening: jpilot-sync. I found that useful 
for resolving hot-syncing issues.

Andrew Robinson