[Gllug] Palm -> kpilot sync problems

Sharon Kimble sharonm63 at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Feb 10 12:23:40 UTC 2005


On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 12:09, Sean Burlington wrote:
> Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > Suddenly I'm unable to sync my palm to kpilot. Every time I try it times
> > out and I get this message 'Cannot accept Pilot (Connection timed out)'.
> > I was last able to sync okay on 2005/02/06 at 1503 [GMT].
> >
> > 15:14:57 Trying to open device /dev/ttyS1...
> > =======================================
> > The permissions for /dev/ttyS1 are rw------- and haven't changed,  with
> > the
>
> are you sure the right device is /dev/ttyS1 ?
>
> this is the first serial port and unless you have a very old palm pilot
> it's more likely to be USB
>
definitly a serial port, because I bought a serial cradle for it, as well as 
the usb cradle. And the cradle hasn't been unplugged for about two months 
now. Its a Palm m130, about 2-3 years old now.

> due to the plug and play nature of USB I can't predict exactly which
> device you will need but on my system it's usually /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> you could also try jpilot or pilot-link
>
okay, I'll have a play with them tonight.

> This will tell you if the problem is specific to kpilot

Thanks Sean.

Sharon.
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