Palm device difficulties

rwillard · 04-21-2005, 03:15 PM

I have a Palm device that I have been syncing without too much hassle to Evolution (FC3).

The difficulty is that each time I reboot, I have to give read/write access to non root for ttyS0 (done through nautilus as I don't know the command line yet), then regenerate the link to the pilot (ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot) and restart the pilot daemon.

Is there any way that I can set this up so I don't have to go through these steps each time?

Thanks!
Rob

oneandoneis2 · 04-21-2005, 04:24 PM

I assume you're using udev, so go to /etc/udev/permissions.d and create a rule that says ttyS0 should be universally read-write-able. And then /etc/udev/rules.d and add a rule that says ttyS0 should be symlinked to pilot - you should be able to work out how this works from the existing config files.

Incidentally, the command from the CLI to change the permissions is "chmod 666 ttyS0"

rwillard · 04-22-2005, 10:25 AM

Great! Thanks oneandone...

I changed 50-udev.permissions to now read:

Code:

# serial+dialup devices
ttyS*:root:uucp:0666        <==== CHANGED
ippp*:root:root:0660
isdn*:root:root:0660
isdnctrl*:root:root:0660
capi*:root:root:0660
dcbri*:root:root:0660
ircomm*:root:uucp:0660
ttyUSB*:root:uucp:0660
tts/[0-9]*:root:uucp:0666  <==== CHANGED
tts/USB[0-9]*:root:uucp:0660

I wasn't sure which one change, so did both to be sure

I also set gpilotd to look to /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/pilot, as it will always be going in the only serial port I have.

Thanks for the help!
Rob