Pilot installation

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Sun Mar 24 16:01:37 PST 2002


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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