Re: error message at gpilotd initialization

[Landis McGauhey <b3zdomny gmail com>]

Nathan, thank you very much.  Unfortunately, all of the USB nodes (there are several) available from the applet's drop-down list generate the same error message.  By the way, the same is true of the USB nodes available from the drop-down list in JPilot.

Keeping on eye on Nautilus open to /dev, I notice that every time the sync button is pressed on the PDA, nodes with very strange names like "usbdev2.29_ep81" appear in /dev.  The suffix numeral of each new node increases by one digit with each new press of the sync button.

I'm rather stymied at this point, but I know there's a solution and with the insight and help of everyone on the list, we'll find it.

Thanks again,

Landis McGauhey
North-Central California USA

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:

Landis,

Just to be explicit: what you need to do is to fire up the gnome pilot
configuration applet (either via your configuration menus, or run
"gpilotd-control-applet" from a terminal window).

Then, under the 'devices' tab, you need to edit the port, and where it
says "/dev/pilot" you need to choose "usb:" from the dropdown menu.

That should be all you need to do, but let us know how you get on.

Matt

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 06:14 -0700, Nathan Owens wrote:
> It sounds like your distributions is using libusb. If so, then just
> choose "usb:device", as mentioned in the error message. You wouldn't
> need to rebuild the kernel or anything like that.
>
> Nathan
>
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