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From: Jessica Rasku <jrasku@××××××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:57:45
Message-Id: 43B600A7.3070701@armispiansystems.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup... by Heinz Sporn
1 Heinz Sporn wrote:
2 > Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 02:34 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku:
3 >
4 >>I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync. Using
5 >>pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error:
6 >>
7 >>jrasku@gypsy ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done; pilot-xfer\ -l
8 >> No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
9 >> Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'
10 >>
11 >> Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
12 >> Please use --help for more information
13 >>
14 >
15 >
16 > Funny coincidence - had the same problem today.
17 >
18 > My Palm is a Tungsten E without a craddle - just an USB cable. To be
19 > able to use that I need a couple of things:
20 >
21 > 1. Kernel
22 > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
23 > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
24 > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
25 >
26 > 2. Loading modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 with
27 >
28 > visor vendor=0x0830 product=0x0060
29 >
30 > That'll both load visor and usbserial.
31 >
32 > 3. UDEV
33 > In /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules:
34 > KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="tts/USB%n", GROUP="usb", MODE="0666"
35 > BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB[13579]",
36 > SYMLINK="pilot", MODE="0666", GROUP="usb"
37 >
38 > In /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions
39 > ttyUSB*:root:usb:0666
40 > tts/[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
41 > tts/USB[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
42 > pilot:root:usb:0666>
43
44 Thank you, this worked for me. Just re-wrote the udev rules and
45 permissions got it working. Not quite sure what wasn't quite right, but
46 I got it working. Thank you very much.
47
48 Jessica
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