JPILOT

Michael Wittman plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:14:22 -0700


On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 09:14:44AM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> I hate this! I do not know what I opened when I synced my visor but it was not 
> jpilot. (it was kpilot) jpilot is not even on my system.... I just realized 
> where jpilot is. It was still on my disks. oops. NOw I have a slight problem. 
> HOw do i get it to recognize my USB ports? I become SU, enter /dev~ and then 
> do you create a ln -s from tty(?) to jpilot? Or is it from vcs(?). Aren't all 
> of those tty's the com ports? I would think that it would be usb(?) I mean 
> they have usbmouse in there. How do you do this? I do not remember. 

You need to link either the usb0 or usb1 tty ports to /dev/pilot.
On my Red Hat 8 system, it's:
   ln -sf usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot

Also, if you haven't synced before, you'll need to press the hotsync
button on the device before initiating the sync on the desktop.

-Mike