[ale] Debian and Palm Pilot

[Robert L. Harris]

  Is your pilot serial or USB?  If it's usb, plug it in, hit the sync
button and run "lsusb"


Thus spake Jim Seymour (bluejay at speedfactory.net):

> Hi All,
> 
> I have never been able to get my Palm to connect to my Debian Sarge
> system to backup, etc. It uses the pilot-link program and I would like
> to stick with that if possible. I have added myself to the dialout
> group, created the symlink /dev/pilot and set permissions on /dev/ttyS1
> to 666. The pilot and the computer do not seem to be able to
> communicate. I can run gnome-pilot program however they never see each
> other and it fails. Ideas??????? Does not work as root either.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Seymour
> 
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