Pilot installation

cal herrmann cal at herrmanns.org
Sun Mar 24 23:01:57 PST 2002


On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:01 pm, you wrote:


Thanks, but please also, how do I get rid of my wrong link?  On trying 
another, I get /dev/pilot exists. Cal

> Make the link to /dev/ttys0 instead.
>
> ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/pilot
>
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, cal herrmann wrote:
> > Trying to install my Palm Pilot, in Mandrake, sometimes trying with KDE
> > and sometimes Gnome,  I got a message /dev/pilot doesn't exist; made a
> > link but maybe did it wrong:
> > ln -s /dev/cua0 /dev/pilot
> > Now I get the message to check permissions, can't access.
> > Apparently chmod doesn't on a link, I don't get any change (from
> > lr-xr-xr-x) trying on /dev/cua0 or /dev/pilot.
> > Now ls -l on /dev/cua0 shows a link to /dev/cua/0
> > I don't know what that means.
> > Quick education, please? Thanks, Cal



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