filo
10-29-2000, 10:29 PM
Using Mandrake 7.2, I have my Visor working using USB. I believe this will work with other distros as you will see.
All of the info below assumes you have USB working already. You need to create a symbolic link called pilot in dev, which points to /dev/usb/ttyUSB1. ttyUSB1 is what worked for me, you may need to tinker with it. I'm pretty new to Linux so I can't really explain why this one worked for me instead of ttyUSB0 or ttyUSb2, etc.
The easy way in Mandrake 7.2:
Open a file called usb in /etc/sysconfig. There is a line that says VISOR=no. Change this to yes and you should see it load during the startup process. Basically this tells the USB startup in init.d to run the following command: /sbin/modprobe visor.o
The other way:
I think this may work with other distros as long as USB support is enabled since I was doing this with the 2.2 kernel before I found the setting above.
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/usb/usbserial.o vendor=0x082d product=0x0100
It appears that you can't use J-Pilot and Pilot Link at the same time. Don't know why you would want to or if this will be true with other sync software.
All of the info below assumes you have USB working already. You need to create a symbolic link called pilot in dev, which points to /dev/usb/ttyUSB1. ttyUSB1 is what worked for me, you may need to tinker with it. I'm pretty new to Linux so I can't really explain why this one worked for me instead of ttyUSB0 or ttyUSb2, etc.
The easy way in Mandrake 7.2:
Open a file called usb in /etc/sysconfig. There is a line that says VISOR=no. Change this to yes and you should see it load during the startup process. Basically this tells the USB startup in init.d to run the following command: /sbin/modprobe visor.o
The other way:
I think this may work with other distros as long as USB support is enabled since I was doing this with the 2.2 kernel before I found the setting above.
insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/usb/usbserial.o vendor=0x082d product=0x0100
It appears that you can't use J-Pilot and Pilot Link at the same time. Don't know why you would want to or if this will be true with other sync software.