[Sussex] synce - not connecting

[John D.]

Steve Williams wrote:

>Remember you need to run dccm from your user account, and
>synce-serial-start as root (su or suod I suggest).
>
>As soon as you run synce-serial-start, you should see your XDA connect.
>
>We didn't cover multisync for syncing your contacts etc. I can take you
>through that as well if you wish. Let me know.
>  
>
Yup, tried that Steve, I'm not getting anything at all. Not a peep out 
of the XDA.

As you can see, the usb system can see it

bash-2.05b# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 079: ID 0bb4:0a05 High Tech Computer Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b8:011d Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1260 Photo
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
bash-2.05b#

But having sat down and tried to follow the synce howto I can't work out 
how to find out what the XDA is (or isn't) doing.

regards

John D.