[gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

2005-12-30 Thread Jessica Rasku
I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync.  Using
pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done;  pilot-xfer\ -l
   No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p port given.
   Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'

   Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
   Please use --help for more information

I'm not sure where to go from here.  I've read several howtos, and have
not gotten anywhere beyond this.  Most things with gentoo have `just
worked' though I'm not sure why this is posing a problem.  Any help
would be apreciated.  Thank you for your time.

Jessica
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Re: [gentoo-user] Palm PDA setup...

2005-12-30 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Freitag, den 30.12.2005, 02:34 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku:
 I'm trying to setup my PDA and it just refuses to sync.  Using
 pilot-xfer I will get a cannot bind to port error:
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done;  pilot-xfer\ 
 -l
No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p port given.
Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'
 
Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
Please use --help for more information
 

Funny coincidence - had the same problem today.

My Palm is a Tungsten E without a craddle - just an USB cable. To be
able to use that I need a couple of things:

1. Kernel
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m

2. Loading modules in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 with

visor vendor=0x0830 product=0x0060

That'll both load visor and usbserial.

3. UDEV
In /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules:
KERNEL==ttyUSB[0-9]*, NAME=tts/USB%n, GROUP=usb, MODE=0666
BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=Palm Handheld*, KERNEL=ttyUSB[13579],
SYMLINK=pilot, MODE=0666, GROUP=usb

In /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions
ttyUSB*:root:usb:0666
tts/[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
tts/USB[0-9]*:root:usb:0666
pilot:root:usb:0666

4. Hotplug should have been emerged and running

5. Testing

Now add your user(s) to the group usb, press Hotsync on your Palm device
and check if /dev/tts/USB0 and /dev/tts/USB1 have been created by UDEV
and a symlink /dev/pilot exists.

If that's true run pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot --list while your Palm still
is trying to hotsync. pilot-xfer should be able to connect now.

If you're using Gnome I recommend using the gnome-pilot-applet. Works
like a charm with Evolution.


 I'm not sure where to go from here.  I've read several howtos, and have
 not gotten anywhere beyond this.  Most things with gentoo have `just
 worked' though I'm not sure why this is posing a problem.  Any help
 would be apreciated.  Thank you for your time.
 
   Jessica

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