USB Palm, Was: Re: FC5 Step Backwards: WAS: Mostly off topic, Evolution question

karlp at ourldsfamily.com karlp at ourldsfamily.com
Thu Apr 27 18:16:28 UTC 2006


On Thu, April 27, 2006 10:28 am, Rick Stevens said:
> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:50 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>> On Wed, April 26, 2006 7:11 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said:
>> > On Wed, April 26, 2006 3:01 pm, Rick Stevens said:
>> >> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:18 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, April 26, 2006 10:47 am, Rick Stevens said:
>> >>> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:52 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
>> >>> >> I have FC5 on a laptop, as well as the newest Ubuntu. I spent the
>> last
>> >> Palm and Linux have always been problematical.  That being said, I've
>> >> gotten my old Handspring Prism, Tapwave Z2 and Tungsten E2 to work just
>> >> fine via both USB and bluetooth on both FC4 and FC5.  It does take a
>> bit
>> >> of fiddling, but it works.
>> >
>> > I'll have to fiddle with the USB owner issues again and see if FC5 works
>> > better than RH8.0 which is the last time I got serious. Interesting that
>> > Ubuntu works out of the box with no twiddling.
>>
>> Okay, I just added my loginname to /etc/group behind uucp and now it syncs
>> flawlessly first time, every time. Man if it was this easy on RH8/FC3/FC4,
>> I'd have been a lot happier all along...
>
> I changed the permissions on /dev/ttyUSB in the hotplug stuff instead of
> adding my username to the uucp group.  End result is the same.

I did that first and had no luck.

KLP





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