jpilot, usb problems

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: jpilot, usb problems
started by: santarosajr

Posted by santarosajr on Feb. 27 2006,21:24

I'm trying to sync my palm m500 with jpilot via a USB connection. It works fine with Ubuntu and Debian, but no luck so far with DSL. I've tried
entering various values in the settings, like /dev/ttyUSB1 and
/dev/ttyUSB1 but no luck so far. I installed jpilot from the mydsl
repository.

Thanks, John

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 01 2006,05:53

Hmm... A quick look around reveals the following devices:

/dev/ttyUSB0
/dev/ttyUSB1
...

also there is:

/dev/usb/ttyUSB0
/dev/usb/ttyUSB1
...

The "USB" part is uppercase letters and the rest are lowercase letters.

Finally, I noticed that the "owner" of the tty device was "root" with no permissions for all users to access the device.

For the /dev/ttyUSB0, access is allowed for members of the group "dialout", so you may be able to access it under user "dsl".

I would try some of these devices and if you can't get it to work, then try an experiment and run the program as user "root" in a Xterminal window and type:

sudo su
jpilot