PDA and Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 changes?

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Hi SJ,

On Dec 11, 2007 12:41 PM, S. J. van Harmelen <svh at dds.nl> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a small question about PDA's and Ubuntu 7.10. A few moths ago I
> could use a PDA connected to my Ubuntu 7.04 workstation, to connect true
> Citrix and sync with MS Outlook.
>
> Now after I upgraded to 7.10 this doesn't seem to work anymore :(
>
> I still get the correct messages in dmesg about finding the PDA and
> creating the ttyUSB0 device, but then nothing else happens.
>
> Also when I do a "cat something > /dev/ttyUSB0" I see a popup on the PDA
> saying something about it's USB connection.
>
> So the connection seems fine, but the Citrix client can't seem to
> find/see the PDA anymore.
>
> So what changed? Any help/tips or pointers are very much appreciated!!

If I understand correctly, now the default way is through libusb, so
the port you should use is  not '/dev/something' but 'usb:' (without
quotes, with colon).

I'm not sure if it is the default, because I use the libusb way since
at least 7.04. It's simpler, and faster. This is what I recommend.

regards
FF