Re: Fedora 8 and Palm TE with libusb workarounds

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 16:31 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
> I recently did a fresh install of Fedora 8.  Under Fedora 7, I had built
> pilot-link with libusb enabled.   The F8 pilot-link rpm has a
> udev rules file but doesn't install it.

George,

Thanks for the info.  The best thing to do here is to search or open an
issue at bugzilla.redhat.com.  If the shipping udev rules in F8 are not
correct for you then that is something they should want to fix.

Matt

> 
> $ head /usr/share/pilot-link/udev/60-libpisock.rules
> # udev rules file for pilot-link's libpisock library, enabled for libusb
> #
> SUBSYSTEMS!="usb", ACTION!="add", GOTO="libpisock_rules_end"
> 
> # Sony handheld devices
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0038", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0664"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0066", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0664"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0095", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0664"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="009a", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0664"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00da", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0664"
> 
> This differs from the rules I was using for F7:
> 
> $ head /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libpisock.rules # $Id:
> 60-libpisock.rules,v 1.4 2007/02/16 18:26:41 desrod Exp $
> #
> # udev rules file for pilot-link's libpisock library, enabled for libusb
> #
> SUBSYSTEMS!="usb", ACTION!="add", GOTO="libpisock_rules_end"
> 
> # Sony handheld devices
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0038", MODE="0664",
> RUN+="/sbin/pam_console_apply -c
> /etc/security/console.perms.pilot-link $env{DEVNAME}"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0066", MODE="0664",
> RUN+="/sbin/pam_console_apply -c
> /etc/security/console.perms.pilot-link $env{DEVNAME}"
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0095", MODE="0664",
> RUN+="/sbin/pam_console_apply -c
> /etc/security/console.perms.pilot-link $env{DEVNAME}"
> 
> Even after creating a dialout group and adding my login to it,
> there were permission issues using pilot-xfer.   Reverting to
> the old configuration files from F7 seems to be working.

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