Re: [Evolution] Configuring Gnome-pilot on RH 7.3 for Palm m500

[Mertens Bram <bram-mertens linux be>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 16:03, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> RH7.3 palm support does not work with USB, unless you have an updated
> pilot-link and gnome-pilot packages (as well as an evolution linked to
> those library versions).

I use Red Carpet to keep my system up-to-date (although I haven't
upgraded to RH 8.0 yet) and I have the following (pilot)packages
installed:
gnome-pilot-0.1.69-1.ximian.1
pilot-link-0.11.5-4.ximian.1
xpilot-4.4.3-5
gnome-pilot-conduits-0.10-1.ximian.1
evolution-pilot-1.2.0-1.ximian.1
pilot-link-devel-0.11.5-4.ximian.1
gnome-pilot-applet-0.1.69-1.ximian.1
gnome-pilot-devel-0.1.69-1.ximian.1

> If you do have support for this you need to open up the pilot capplet,
> and produce a device on /dev/ttyUSB1 with USB type (NB /dev/ttyUSB0 is
> also your palm, but not the hotsync channel).  You also need to amke
> sure your kernel has the appropriate modules and hotplug config to talk
> with the palm, and that the device permissions are appropriate.

Do you mean creating a device from the Pilot link section in the Gnome
Control Panel?
When I click the Pilot Link I first get the wizard and when I close that
I have 4 tabs:
Pilots / Devices / conduits / Advanced
in devices I can press the add button which opens a window (Device
Settings) with the following fields:
Name: 'Set to Cradle'           should be: usb?
Port: 'set to /dev/pilot'       should be /dev/ttyUSB1?
Speed 'set to 57600'            should be 115200?
Timeout 'set to 2'              ??
Type: 'Serial / USB / IrDA / Network'   should be USB

Do I have to start this wizard as root?

I have tried to manually create the symlink with
[root localhost M8ram]# ln -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot
and
[root localhost M8ram]# ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot

But that doesn't seem to help...

Do I need to chgrp or chmod anything? /dev/ttyUSB1 has uucp as grp...

Do I need to restart the gpilotd after changing anything like this?  How
would I do this?

TIA for any suggestions!

p.s. sorry if this gets (partly) double posted, my messages didn't seem
to appear on the list...
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