I've asked this list several times (probably more than 5) for help synching my pilot. After long last I got it working so I figured I'd explain what was going on. I got this IBM ThinkPad 600E in 1999. Pilot synch worked fine in Windows but never once in linux. When setting up the pilot in the control center, it would always act as though the serial cable were unpluged---I changed permissions, etc. but nothing. It turned out that the serial port was disabled. The only way to fix this is using a DOS program called ps2.exe which is available from IBM as part of a self-extracting EXE, uttcpdos.exe. I was able to use DOSemu to create a boot disk, extract uttcpdos.exe, and copy ps2.exe onto a floppy. Rebooting into DOS for real (not dosemu), running A:\> ps2 serial on then A:\> ps2 sera enable [sic] and then rebooting into Linux, everything just plian worked. Some of this stuff is speciffic to a family of ThinkPads, but in general, if your computer is acting like it's not connected to the pilot, hunt around (I recomend google groups) and see if your ports aren't disabled. --Ben
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