Setting up a Palm Device [m505]

[ammar]

Hi there,

How does one go about setting up a palm device? I tried the Pilot app from within gnome, but it didnt recieve any notification of the hotsync (last step of the setup process: press hotsync). I think the pda is not detected.

Is there a step-by-step process of how to get this to work?

[tchung]

Hello,

Here is an old tutorial I wrote back in December 2003.

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gnome-pilot/

Thomas

[ammar]

Thanks. This is the output I get after following the steps:
No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'

Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
Please use --help for more information

[Saskman]

/dev/pilot should point to the port your pilot is connected to for example mine is a serial system so /dev/pilot is symbolically linked to /dev/ttyS0 I see yours is a m505 which I believe is USB based you may have to create a /dev/pilot

see http://pilot-link.org/README.usb

[ammar]

Thanks a bunch, it works great now =)

[ahoyt]

Hello,

I can connect to my Palm Zire21 with the #pilot-xfer -l with no problem. However when I try to use the "Palm OS devices" GUI, it has no response. It just times out after awhile.

ahoyt

[ahoyt]

Oops,

a reply to my own post. I needed to change the port designation from tty/usb/01 to ttyUSB1. It works good now. There are occasional glitches, but exiting J-Pilot and then going back in seems to fix it.

ahoyt

[Mtnear]

Okay, following the tutorial, I get this:

[root@localhost scott]# ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot
[root@localhost scott]# pilot-xfer -l
No $PILOTPORT specified and no -p <port> given.
Defaulting to '/dev/pilot'

Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
Please use --help for more information

So, I try to specify a port and get:

[root@localhost scott]# pilot-xfer -p --ttyUSB1
Time elapsed: 0:00:00

??

I'm trying to sync with my palm m515.

Thanks

[ahoyt]

Did you make a symbollic link?

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot

Something like that.

ahoyt

[marcus-cat]

Did you make a symbollic link?

ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot

Something like that.

ahoyt

I also found that I had to add the devices by hand after installing FC3.

From a terminal I entered:
mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB1

To see the devices type:
ls -al /dev/ttyUSB?

I then ran Jpilot, hit the synch button and then pressed the palm synch button.

[imdeemvp]

You are correct something changed in fedora core 3 that you have to add it manually. I think tchung has to update his tutorial.

[marcus-cat]

You are correct something changed in fedora core 3 that you have to add it manually. I think tchung has to update his tutorial.

One other oddity with FC3: After the synch is complete in Jpilot the usb system appears to lose the devices /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/ttyUSB0. I haven't found a way to make them 'stick'. Currently I run a script that adds the palm devices, changes privs, and starts a synch each time I want to synch -- messy but it works for now.

[marcus-cat]

Currently I run a script that adds the palm devices, changes privs, and starts a synch each time I want to synch -- messy but it works for now.

In case anybody wants it here is the desktop script I run before using Jpilot on FC3 -- as I said before, it is ugly but it works for now.

#!/bin/bash
# palm-devices FC3 shell script hack

# place in text file and set to 'execute'
# in Gnome or KDE set the file to run as user 'root' -- run it
# Start up gpilot or jpilot and then click synch on palm

# make palm devices, pilot link, change privs
mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB1
rm /dev/pilot
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot
chmod 666 /dev/pilot

[Scoob_E]

Found out how to avoid using your script... after googling I cam across this page:

http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096

gpilot works like a charm after creating the two files...

hat's off to the blog's author

Scoob

[elgeeko]

I got my T3 working with FC3 and Gnome-Pilot, here's what I discovered (from memory):

FC3 now uses udev which dynamically creates device files, so that's why you can't see them in dev. They only exists when you synch.

Use ln -s ttyUSB1 /etc/udev/devices/pilot

Then go into /etc/udev/permissons.d/ and change the entries for pilot and ttyUSB1 so that udev creates the files with 0666 permissions rather than 0660.

RH advise not to change the permissions file, but it worked for me.

elgeeko...