On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 11:19 -0400, Peter N. Spotts wrote: > Witt Jpilot, > for reasons I haven't researched, /dev/pilot or /dev/ttyUSB0-1 get set > up automatically, but apparently only after pilot-link detects the > sync > signal from the PDA.
What is happening is that the /dev/pilot (or whatever) device doesn't actually exist until you hit the Hotsync button. When you hit the button it's detected by the hotplug/udev subsystem and the device is created on the fly. Pilot sync programs *should* be able to poll for the device to come alive and then sync them, but mostly they don't. I speculate that this is because most of them are several years old and were written at a time when udev/hotplug was uncommon. Also, they were originally written for serial devices (tty's) and not USB. You might also want to look at pilot.link.org. There's a new version of the pilot-link software that can be configured with a user-level library (libusb) which they say is much faster than the kernel Visor module. I don't know how this fits in with Evo, if at all. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
