Re: 2nd post - SETSERIAL? - WAS Syncing a Palm in Redhat73

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 09:37, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Perhaps a little OT, but I'm struggling with syncing my palm under RedHat 7.3
> and KDE 3.0.
> 
> I have a dual boot machine, running Redhat 73 and Win98. Under win98, I can
> sync fine.  The hotsync cradle for my palm is attached to COM3, it shows
> 03E8-03EF and IR 03.
> 
> >From the Linux side, using the gpilot wizard, I step through defining the
>  port (/dev/ttyS2, which I believe matches the above), and follow the
>  instructions to perform the initial sync with the pilot.  It prompts me to
>  press the hot sync button, but then nothing happens.  Eventually the palm
>  times out.  I've tried kpilot, also, with the same result.
> 

Bill I don't use KDE but seems like I had to change the perms on the
device to allow myself as a regular user to write to the port.  What are
the perms on /dev/ttyS2?

Bret