Pilot installation

troy fryman at sonic.net
Mon Mar 25 23:50:22 PST 2002


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:25:06AM -0500, cal herrmann wrote:
> 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

One, i screwed you up.
/dev/ttys0 is not the same device as /dev/ttyS0
        ^                                    ^
Sorry about that.  As punishment i'm going to use vi for a week.

Two, you're using devfs which is why ttyS0 is in fact a link to /dev/tts/0
None of my machines use devfs but it seems to me /dev/pilot should be a link
to /dev/tts/0   (you could link it to /dev/ttyS0 too, but it'd just be
another link to follow.)

Assuming it's available, pilot-xfer is useful to verify that you've got
things set up correctly: 
	$ pilot-xfer -p /dev/tts/0 -l
# -p is for port, -l is list databases on the palm

Although if kpilot runs as a daemon you'd probably have to shut it down
first...

-ta (an insensitive guy in a case-sensitive world)




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