Re: I can't sync my TE2

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

Oh, just remembered another possible problem: gnome-pilot
requires the file /proc/bus/usb/devices to exist, and will silently
ignore USB palms if it can't read that file.

Can some ubuntu dapper user confirm whether that file exists?

Matt

> > It seems to be a known dapper problem. On the forum more people complain
> > about it. (I have the same problem).
> > The palm will sync fine with jpilot, and also do some kind of sync with
> > multisync. Yet gpilot is completely unresponsive.
> 
> The original poster said the pilot-xfer / install-user didn't work
> for him.  This suggests no connectivity to the palm, which makes
> it seem unlikely that it is the same problem you describe, as I
> would doubt that jpilot could work if pilot-link tools don't.
> 
> I'd be interested to know what 'known dapper problem' you're referring
> to.  Can you post links to the forum messages?
> 
> Usually, when gnome-pilot isn't working and other tools are, it's
> just a case of adding the correct USB IDs into the devices.xml file.
> I'm not saying that's the case here, just that until you get pilot-link
> working there's no reason to assume you've got a gnome-pilot problem.