Pilot installation

cal herrmann cal at herrmanns.org
Mon Mar 25 06:25:06 PST 2002


Thanks, got that far, still have stupid problem!  The Kpilot program after a 
sync connection is asked, puts up a window, "waiting to Sync," which locks up 
everything, hard to get out since the signal isn't getting through. Now 
ls -l /dev/ttS0 gives 
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 5 Mar25... /dev/ttyS0 ->tts/0 and won't chmod.
ls -l /dev/tts/0 gives
crw-rw--rw- tty   etc.
ls-l /dev/pilot gives
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root  root  9  Mar 25  /dev/pilot ->/dev/tty0
well then, puzzled, setserial -bg /dev/ttyS? gives 16550A's at 3f8, IRQ4, and 
2f8, IRQ3.
stty -a gives 9600 baud for both.  Should this be speeded up? The Pilots like 
115k elsewhere.  
Back in the old days(!) one could put a wire from the transmit to the receive 
pin on the DB25 connector and test to see if a port was getting through.
Thanks, Cal

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