Getting GPilot and J-Pilot to Play Nice In Fedora 7

[Karl Larsen]

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> The first thing you have to understand is that the Palm does not
> show up as a USB device until you press the sync button. When you
> start the sync on the Palm, there are two USB serial ports created.
> I don't know why it shows up as 2 devices - you would have to ask Palm.
>
> Now, there is a problem with it showing up as 2 serial ports - some
> Palm devices use the first port to sync, and some use the second.
> The udev rules that create the pilot symlink work fine with one
> type, but not the other. I don't remember if the Treo uses the first
> port, or the second port. Eventually someone is going to have to
> write a set of udev rules that create the correct symlink based on
> the product ID of the palm. I think the old hotplug script did
> something like that.
>
> To make matter slightly more complicated, the current console.perms
> rules do not change the owner on the serial ports, but do change the
> permissions on the port pointed to by the pilot symlink. So if the
> symlink points to the wrong port, then you can not access it as a
> user, unless you belong to the uucp group. Otherwise you could use
> /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyUSB1 instead of /dev/pilot.
>
> Mikkel
>
> Thanks Mikkel for the info.   However, despite all this, there are 
> still individuals out there that have some degree of success with 
> their Palm Devices.  In addition, I can still get my Palm device to 
> work perfectly under Windows.  I don't understand why there doesn't 
> seem to be the will for anyone to get these devices working correctly 
> and consistently under Linux with each successive release of Fedora.  
> It's almost a crap shoot with each release of Fedora - sometimes the 
> Palm devices work and sometimes they don't. In any case, I am not sure 
> that the issue is with the Palm company - after all they seem to work 
> well with the software that is written for Windows.  It's frustrating 
> because I am a great fan of Fedora but at the same time, I need my 
> device to work reliably and consistently and these difficulties seems 
> to be a show stopper to where I am forced to use Windows for my Palm 
> Treo 680. 
    I think we have been told why it is hard to make a Palm devise yours 
and mine work on F7. This is fine but mine worked fine on FC6. At least 
my Z-22 worked there. But it barfs out on F7. I think I wrote a bug on 
this a month or two ago. Nothing has changed.




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