Re: Tungsten E can't sync -- Solved!

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 21:19, Andrew Cleasby wrote:

> Well...turns out I didn't have usbfs enabled in my kernel, so
> no /proc/bus/usb entry.  I changed this, recompiled the kernel,
> rebooted, and voila--palm found.

Cool!

> Not sure why this is necessary and didn't see any mention of this being
> required anywhere, but at least its working.

Well, the simple reason why it's necessary is that gpilotd
watches for known palm devices to appear in the
/proc/bus/usb/devices file.

Glad you got it working,

Matt