Re: Newbie questions

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:29 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 05:41 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> > Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 21:49 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> > >   
> > > I too could never get visor and /dev/ttyUSB* to work with my 700p, so I
> > > switched to libusb, which is faster.
> > >
> > > Try this, it works for me with a 700p on Debian etch:
> > >       * find /lib/modules -name visor.ko -print
> > >       * mv <that file> /root/ [if there's more than one, give them
> > >         different names]
> > >       * rmmod visor
> > >       * <Remove pilot-applet from panel, if it's running>
> > >       * apt-get update && apt-get install libusb libusb-dev
> > >   
> > Had to use Synaptic Package Manager as apt-get could not find libusb
> 
> Oops!  Sorry, libusb-dev should have pulled in the shared libusbXX
> package, so that alone would have been enough.
> 
> > >       * cp /usr/share/pilot-link/udev/60-libpisock.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
> > >   
> > Shell could not find the file!

Sorry, forgot about this one.  This is in the pilot-link package in
Debian etch; to find it in Ubuntu 7.04 with pilot-link installed, try
 * locate libpisock | grep rules
then move the resulting file into /etc/udev/rules.d/

> > >       * /etc/init.d/udev restart
> > >       * <Plug in Treo>
> > >       * <Hit hotsync>
> > >       * pilot-link -p usb: -l
> > >   
> > Could not find pilot-link!
> 
> D'oh!  It's pilot-xfer.  And to think I'd tested pilot-xfer just before
> sending this email, then wrote pilot-link. :-(
> 
> Sorry about the dumb errors!

Apologies again.

If anyone has made visor work with Debian etch or Ubuntu 7.04, please
document...

-Adam
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