Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33285 Comment: /proc/bus/usb is deprecated, programs shuold use /dev/bus/usb instead. Or even better, just use /dev/ttyUSBn. This suspiciously sounds like bug 25653 (and bug 34387). So, if gnome- pilot upstream was ported to hal now, it would be worth taking that for dapper.