One time on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:51:52PM +1300 this person named Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting a new palm (tunsten E) tomorrow. My last palm m105 was sold > before I switched to Debian and worked fine in mdk. > > Is there any tip /things-i-need-todo to get a usb palm working in debian > (apart from installing the right software)?
This is what I've done:
1. I use gPilot. Other people may recommend something else.
o gPilot uses usb and defaults to /dev/pilot
o ln -s /dev/ttyUSBx /dev/pilot
I should mention here mine uses ttyUSB0 - you can check
/var/log/messages when you plug your Palm in and try to sync it. It
will tell you which ttyUSB it is. Or you can play around until you
figure it out :)
o chmod 660 ttyUSBx - and make sure you're in the dialout group
o chown username ttyUSBx
IIRC, this is what it took to get mine working with gPilot, although I
was not smart enough to figure out the steps so quickly. It goes without
saying that you should be running a kernel that supports USB.
I should also mention that I have to re-do this occasionally since, for
some reason I have yet to investigate, all of it gets overwritten
(symlinks, perms etc.) Hopefully this won't happen to you. :)
Good luck,
Erinn
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