Re: Can't get Zire72s to work - Well, I can, sort of.

[Mark Healey <marklist healeyonline com>]

gnome-pilot sphart uklinux net wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 07:37:20PM -0700, Mark Healey wrote:
>
> > Matt Davey wrote:
> >
> > > Just an idea:
> > >
> > > http://www.pilot-link.org/node/175
> > >
> > > The writer reports success with the Zire 72 by pressing hotsync,
> > > cancelling after 3 secs, and pressing hotsync again.
> >
> > That worked, but it is ugly.  The strange thing is that this 
> > morning when I tried it it worked right away.  This evening 
> > The canceling trick worked.
> >
> > Does anybody know why it is like this and can it be fixed?
>
> Some pilots have two USB end points. e.g. ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1. The latter is
> used for the backups, but if udev, if not given enough detail to match
> against, sometimes links pilot to the former (if your rule matches both
> endpoints perhaps there is a race condition).
>
> Try watch ls -l /dev/pilot to see where it is linking to.

/dev/ttyUSB0

udev seems to ignore what I put in 
/etc/udev/permissions.d/05-marks-permissions (0666) which is 
why I have to make /dev/pilot a symlink.

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Mark Healey
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