On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 06:52 -0700, Landis McGauhey wrote:
> Nathan, thank you very much. Unfortunately, all of the USB nodes
> (there are several) available from the applet's drop-down list
> generate the same error message. By the way, the same is true of the
> USB nodes available from the drop-down list in JPilot.
>
> Keeping on eye on Nautilus open to /dev, I notice that every time the
> sync button is pressed on the PDA, nodes with very strange names like
> "usbdev2.29_ep81" appear in /dev. The suffix numeral of each new node
> increases by one digit with each new press of the sync button.
>
> I'm rather stymied at this point, but I know there's a solution and
> with the insight and help of everyone on the list, we'll find it.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Landis McGauhey
> North-Central California USA
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Matt Davey <
mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>
> wrote:
> Landis,
>
> Just to be explicit: what you need to do is to fire up the
> gnome pilot
> configuration applet (either via your configuration menus, or
> run
> "gpilotd-control-applet" from a terminal window).
>
> Then, under the 'devices' tab, you need to edit the port, and
> where it
> says "/dev/pilot" you need to choose "usb:" from the dropdown
> menu.
>
> That should be all you need to do, but let us know how you get
> on.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 06:14 -0700, Nathan Owens wrote:
> > It sounds like your distributions is using libusb. If so,
> then just
> > choose "usb:device", as mentioned in the error message. You
> wouldn't
> > need to rebuild the kernel or anything like that.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> <snip>
