Synching against POSE 3.5?

[Dagmar d'Surreal <dagmar speakeasy net>]

Okay, having somewhat *crushed* my trusty Visor Deluxe yesterday, I
wound up being rather happy that I was able to get a backup of
everything off it, and now I'm trying to _neatly_ get it all back into
POSE (Yaps is kinda a nice thing to have, which turns into a royal
arse-stuphing when you _don't_ have it).

To this end I've managed to figure out the capplet is a little fried and
doesn't show the right select boxes when you pick Network synch type, so
I filled in the proper values by editing it's config file by hand, and
slapped gpilotd (0.1.71, everything 0-day released, this is me we're
talking about) with a -HUP.  Well, it seems to notice the device is
there, and starts to sync, but doesn't appear to be fully working.  Is
this a correct assessment, that network synching isn't fully functional
yet or did I screw something up?

As a secondary goal, if anyone knows why I'm getting an I/O error
reported by gpilotd when I try to use the /dev/ttyqe and /dev/ptyqe pair
I saw also mentioned as a way to do this with POSE, I'm all ears.  (Yes,
I'm actually doing a sleep 5; killall -HUP gpilotd so that I can bring
focus back to the emu so it's got the port running)  Missing a kernel
module maybe...

gpilotd-WARNING **: Could not open device Cradle (/dev/pilot): reason:
"Input/output error".

/dev/pilot pointing to /dev/ttyqe of course...

(Minor note:  If anyone makes further changes to the Gnome 1.4 applet,
it would be nice if _apostrophes_ were allowed in the owner name.)