[Gllug] Help: Can't get Palm to synchronize with Linux PC

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Thu 10 Oct, Eric Lee bloviated thus:

> I have tested and found that my serial ports are called /dev/ttyS0 and
> /dev/ttyS1.  I have tried every combination of these two, and /dev/pilot
> as well.  

/dev/pilot needs to be a symlink to the appropriate serial port.

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
ls -l /dev/pilot
will give you this output:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            5 May 19 13:27 /dev/pilot -> ttyS0

> But no matter what I do, when I click on Hot Sync, nothing at all
> happens.

I'm not sure whether the Hotsync button starts a sync on its own.  I
don't remember it working like that in jpilot, anyway.  You had to
click [Sync] in jpilot and then press the Hotsync button on the
cradle.

(I gave my Palm away a month ago so this is from memory.)

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