[ale] Sync a Palm Tungsten T5 with Linux

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Still no love.  I tailed /var/log/messages, and watched as I connected 
the Palm and pressed the sync button.  It saw it as ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1, 
and I fired up the little script, and went up for a cup of coffee.  When 
I returned, still no dice (the script was just sitting there still).

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Jason Day wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:01:39PM -0400, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>  
>
>>   Thank you for your response!!  I created the rule, and gave it a try, 
>>but didn't get the expected response when I typed the pilot-xfer command 
>>(I tried it as me, and then tried it as root, with the same results [see 
>>below]).
>>
>>[nathan at l64-wks ~]$ pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l
>>  Unable to bind to port: /dev/pilot
>>  Please use --help for more information
>>[nathan at l64-wks ~]$
>>    
>>
>
>It's possible that udev just hadn't created the device yet.  It can take
>a few seconds after the hotsync is started before the device files
>appear in /dev.  Try creating a script like:
>
>while [ ! -f /dev/pilot ] ; do
>    sleep 1
>done
>pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l
>
>Then start the hotsync and run the script.  Give it up to 30 seconds
>before giving up on it.  Obviously, this isn't a long-term solution, but
>will let you know whether the sync can work or not.
>  
>