Re: Synch via Docking Station?

[Rolf Schaeuble <mail rschaeuble de>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 05:24:38PM -0500, T. H. Newman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Red Hat 7.0 on my Compaq Presario laptop and am trying to
> get it to synch with my Palm Vx.  Since the laptop only has a USB
> connection (no serial ports or IrDA connection) I purchased a docking
> station in order to synch using  gnome-pilot (among other reasons).
> I've been unable to get pilot-xfer to work with this configuration.
> 
> Is it possible to synch via a docking station with a serial port?
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate the help.
> 
> 
> Here is my list of serial ports recognized by Linux
> 
> $ dmesg | fgrep tty
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> 
> I then tried the export PILOTPORT=dev/ttyS00
> 
> When I run
> 
> $ pilot-xfer -b palm
> 
> I get a msg "Unable to bind to port dev/ttyS00"
> 
> (Same thing for tty01)
> 
> Here are the packages I have installed
> 
> $ rpm -qa | egrep pilot
> pilot-link-0.9.5-0_helix_2
> gnome-pilot-0.1.55-0_helix_1
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Tom

Try /dev/ttyS0 insted of /dev/ttyS00. In my /dev/ directory i can't find ttyS00, but have ttyS0. Perhaps this helps.

Regards

Rolf Schaeuble

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