I think everything I said in my post is factual. It may even help someone who is thinking about connecting his PDA to a linux box via usb. To summarize:
You need an uptodate kernel. This will be a rebuild so you'll need a working gcc, or a reinstall of your whole system (I went with the latter.)Then you get pilot-link. Not sure if you can go with an rpm or debian or if you need the sources available. I suspect the former. It has to be working. Go figure. Then get the source for jpilot and build it (gcc again, maybe gcc++. I hope not the latter, since mine hasn't worked since Caldera 2.4.). Hope it builds right with pilot-link. Then you can figure out which usb port you need (you actually get four choices if you are lucky enuf to have devfs, but only one works. You would think you would just tell jpilot to use USB and let the program find the right port. ) Then, if you have /devfs, you will have to be careful which button you press first, otherwise it won't work. Do all this, and it might work. If not, its your fault. The real message is unless you want to spend a lot of time, just pass on it. If I had had this information when I started out, I could have saved a great deal of time and aggravation. Problem was, nobody was talking how much work and luck was involved in getting this to work. Now, who says I don't contribute? BTW, this would make a fine step by step. I can't write it because I couldn't make it work. Joel > You've been through all this before. (and so has the list). You went > off in a huff, said you were through with Linux, you went back to > Windows (I assume but could care less). > > Why don't you make up your mind?? > > Every time I read one of your posts, you are off on another goose-chase, > trying to make a program xyz do its thing the way you want it to. And > I think to myself "this guy has too much time on his hands and too > little knowledge to be going to all these lengths." But it's your time > so go blow it if you want. But you take up a lot of bandwidth on the > list and I guess if people want to help, that's their call. I'm not the > owner of the bandwidth. > > But I've "heard this song" before from you.... and I expect you'll be > back. Hopefully with more realistic ideas of what Linux is or isn't and > how you can make it work for you. > > </rant off> > > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 07/13/03 > 21:38 + > +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > "Life is a sexually transmitted disease" > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users