On Wed, 18 May 2011 15:29:15 -0400 Mark Grieveson <dg...@torfree.net> wrote:
> Hello. I use jpilot. I recently got a used Palm Pilot Zire 21. I had > previously been using a Palm IIIe, but it was a serial connection, > and did not use a usb to sync. I have used a Zire in the past, but I > can't seem to set this one set up correctly. I read the README files > from the pilot-link package, and did once get it to sync, but I can't > seem to do it again. I sync my Palm Centro using pilot-link over USB, and it works perfectly. > The stuff I did was something along the lines of running the following > commands: > > /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd > /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd > /bin/mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1 > /bin/chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB? I don't do any of this. > I'm not sure exactly if this is what I did to get it to sync the one > time, but those commands are from the README.usb file of the Debian > package pilot-link, which I used. > > It doesn't work now, and I'd hate to have to keep entering some > variation of the above commands each time. There is another file, > called README.Debian, that presumably tells users how to set it up to > work once and for all. The problem is I don't really understand what > this README.Debian file is instructing. Some of what the README.Debian > file says is: > > /dev/pilot is no more used by pilot-link. You shall indicate the port > to use either with --port <port> or by the environment variable > $PILOTPORT. > > I haven't a clue what they're talking about here. Where is this > "environment variable $PILOTPORT"? Does anyone know how to set this up? I include this line in my .bashrc : export PILOTPORT=usb: For testing, you just enter that line at the CLI (of the specific VT / xterm you'll be invoking pilot-link from). After this, invoking pilot-link should "just work" ... Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110602142814.750aed58.cele...@gmail.com
