Re: Frustrated Pilot user (a different one)

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale HMC Edu>]

I am having basicly the following problem:

On 14 Apr 2001 21:54:24 -0500, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
> I just bought a Palm III and I can't get it to sync using Pilot Link.
> I get the druid when I fire up gnomecc but when it tells me to press
> the "Hot Sync" button, the palm can't connect to the computer.
> 
> The hardware is OK because I can do the sync under Windows 98 with the
> software that 3com provides.  I can't do it when logged in as root so
> I don't think its a permissions issue.  I assume that the serial port
> on my lap top is ttyS2.  But it doesn't really matter.  I can't get it
> to work no matter what the device number.  I've tried them all up to
> ttyS8.
> 
> I'm very frustrated.  Its all well and good to have it working under
> Windows but I live in Linux and that's where all of my PIM stuff is.
> This thing is going to be virtually useless unless I can get the sync
> going.
> 
> Thanks very much for any suggestions.

However the fix for him was ``chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0'' which isn't working
for me. The control center capplet says ``Message: checking rw on
/dev/ttyS0'' on the console, but the connection is never made. The Palm
just times out.

[ben HMC-59-66:~]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tty        4,  64 Sep 27  2000 /dev/ttyS0
[ben HMC-59-66:~]$ 

Any thoughts?


--Ben