no /dev/USB

[Henk Postma]

You could of course hunt down /var/log/messages to see where the palm
is connected to this time:

# grep visor -i /var/log/messages | grep -i visor | grep -i attached |
tail -n 1 | awk '{print $NF}'

would give you the latest mount point (for me it's often 'ttyUSB1')

It's kind of a hack in the sense that it depends on the exact kernel
message, for me :

"Apr  6 10:07:50 localhost kernel: usb 1-1.1: Handspring Visor / Palm
OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1"

In principle, I think it should be possible to have this information
fed to the gpilot configuration file in a script.

Or someone could rewrite the gpilot configuration for the USB attached
version so it will monitor /proc/bus/usb for the actual location. Or
maybe HAL would be a better option here.

On Apr 6, 2005 1:23 AM, info at arthacking.org <info at arthacking.org> wrote:
> Quoting Kenton Brede <kbrede at nixnotes.org>:
> 
> > Or to quickly get yourself going, in jpilot you could go to
> > file/preferences/settings and add /.dev/ttyUSB1 as your port.  The
> > downside is you can only plug into USB1 in order to sync.
> >
> > hth,
> > Kent
> >
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> 
> Thanks so much, this is exactly the info I needed. I'll give it a go.
> 
> Just one question. Is this a common occurance in Ubuntu? The reason I ask is I
> am constantly advocating the adoption of FLOSS to those around me (I am a PhD
> candidate at an art school), and something like this is going to be a deal
> breaker for a lot of folks around here. When I ran the Debian Sarge installer,
> it asked me what port I would connect my palm to. Is there a reason that this
> feature is not included in the Ubuntu installer? It's not a complaint, just
> curious, that's all.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the help. If I get this working, I will post a newbie
> friendly HOW-TO on the site....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
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