[ale] Debian and Palm Pilot

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:33:52PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Is your pilot serial or USB?  If it's usb, plug it in, hit the sync
>>>button and run "lsusb"
>>
>>Good point.  If it's usb, you've got the wrong device.  It would be 
>>/dev/ttyUSB1
>>
> 
> 
> It is a serial connection and is connected to ttyS1. I had it working
> under Red Hat a couple of years ago. Would these failed connection
> attempts show up in a log somewhere with debug info.

check the output of dmesg
check /var/log/messages

what does:

setserial -av /dev/ttyS1

report?

Make sure the speeds of the pilot and the port are the same.  Also try a 
lower speed see if that works.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey