Re: gpilotd isn't seeing my Palm

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:48, Ron Lauzon wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:08 pm, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > > gnome-pilot does not currently work with the tungsten.
> >
> > 	..and to add to that, the reason why is because the previous USB
> > Palm devices would broadcast the string "Palm Handheld" when they attached
> > to the USB subsystem via the usbserial driver in Linux. gnome-pilot uses
> > /proc to detect when the device is attached, and to what device. The
> > Tungsten (and Treo and Sony NXxx devices) all do not do this, and can only
> > be detected via their ProdId value, a hexidecimal value (0x0830 for Palm,
> > for example). Sufficient changes have to be made to gnome-pilot to
> > compensate for this.
> 
> Oh, well...  Thanks to both of you.  At least I can stop wasting my time 
> trying to get it to work.

It well will at some point, probably in the next month or so.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
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