pilot sync problems.

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I sync my Palm Pilot on /dev/pilot which is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0,
I also have the baudrate set to 57,600bps. I don't know about the newer 
Palm Pilots, but mine is a few years old.
Matthew Schnee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You can try /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/ttys0.
> Also you can check the permissions on the device.
> 
> Matthew Schnee
> 
> 
> Frank Ramsay wrote:
> > 
> > I just got a palm pilot and I can get it to sync with my linux laptop :(
> > 
> > I downloaded pilot-link 0.9.3 and built and installed it.
> > but when I run pilot-xfer it says it can't bind /dev/pilot (linked to
> > /dev/ttys0)
> > I then tried using /dev/ttys1 through /dev/ttys4.
> > 
> > Then I re-booted into windows and double checked, it is on COM1 (ttys0
> > right?)
> > and works fine.  So why isn't it working?
> > 
> > I checked a few sites for info (linux.com, linuxcare, etc) but they all
> > seemed say was "download pilot-link and use pilot-xfer".  But nothing
> > about what to do when it doesn't work.
> > please help!  I hate the idea of having to reboot just to sync my palm
> > 
> >                                 -fjr
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