Fedora Core 1 and a Palm Vx (Workpad c3)

[Madison Kelly]

Morning Lennart,

   I have the pilot of /dev/ttyS0 and I have tries giving that device 
666 and 777 permissions as one of the pages I found suggested but it 
didn't work. Any other tips?

Thanks!!

Madison

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:27:34PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>  I picked up recently a used pal pilot (The IBM Workpad c3 which is 
>>exactly a Palm Vx in a black case with the IBM logo). I tried connecting 
>>it to my computer via COM2 (ttys1, I would assume). However, as a user 
>>when I try to connect the the pilot (ask saying "No" when asked if I had 
>>ever sync'ed it before) it would just sit there seemingly forever, or at 
>>least until the palm gave up.
>>
>>  Could someone who has got their Palm working as a user let me know 
>>what I need to do? Thanks!
>>
>>Madison
>>
>>PS - I am using [Redhat Start] -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> 
>>PalmOS Devices  (Gnome Pilot).
> 
> 
> What permissions are on /dev/ttyS1?  Does your user have access to
> read/write to that port?  On debian the palm sync software usually asks
> and changes the group to a group that is just used for plan stuff so you
> can add your user to that group, or you can add the user to the normal
> dialout group that owns the serial ports (well the group) on debian.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen


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