PDA and Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 changes?

[Derek Broughton]

S. J. van Harmelen wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:38 -0200, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>> 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!!

Well, the _very_ old way was to use /dev/pilot, but as USB has developed
that's become less and less reliable.  You really do need to try setting
the connection to usb:
-- 
derek