> (Or apt-get install hotplug and let that do it for you.)  

I never learned how to use this feature. How does one do it?

>Then access
> the device via /dev/ttyUSB1; you might want to create /dev/pilot and
> /dev/palm pointing to this device, since those two symbolic names are
> what most programs access by default.

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot ?

> Note that if you have other USB serial devices, the device you need to
> use will be different than ttyUSB1.  If you look at the logs, it should
> tell you which two ports have been assigned to the cradle; you want the
> second one:

Look at the logs? Where are they?

> Have you looked at the HOWTO at all?
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO/

I am doing so now, thanks for the link!

:)~MIKE~(: