Problems connecting Palm Pilot with USB

[Derek Broughton]

Marius Gedminas wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:55:05AM +0900, Dave M G wrote:
>> I have a Palm T|X, and I'm running Dapper, (I think Flight 5, though I'm
>> not sure).
> 
> I have a Palm Tungsten T.  I have not fiddled with udev rules.  I use
> /dev/ttyUSB0 directly (some Palm models use /dev/ttyUSB0, some use
> /dev/ttyUSB1 and the only way I know to find the right one is to try
> both).  The default permissions are OK, if your user account is in the
> 'dialout' group.
> 
It's worse than that.  If you have any other serial USB devices connected,
the Palm will use some other /dev/ttyUSB* device.  The rule in udev to
set /dev/pilot, _should_ be the right device.

>> And lastly, I get this odd error that I completely don't understand when
>> I simply went looking to see if there was a /dev/pilot entry:
>> dave at homebase:/dev$ ls pilot
>> ls: pilot: Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> It would seem that /dev/pilot points to itself, recursively.  Try ls -l
> /dev/pilot.
> 
> I suggest you try hotsyncing with /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 (to
> figure out which one is right for Palm T|X), instead of trying /dev/pilot
> immediatelly.

I'm not sure anyone has successfully got a T|X working with Kpilot, so I'm
not holding out much hope with any of the other tools (Kpilot relies on
pilot-link, anyway).
-- 
derek