In the afternoon it appeared that it will not work at all – everywhere (eg: pilot-link.org) it said that atleast kernel version 2.4.17 was needed. Trying to upgrade the kernel was a mistake !!
Thankfully I was able to revert back to the original kernel without much harm being done. The second mistake was trying to install using the RPMs I had created for Jpilot and Pilot-link.
So I compiled Pilot-Link 0.10.99 and Jpilot 0.9.2 the regular ./configure, make, make install way. It still wouldn’t work 
Actually when it did work it was by fluke when I pressed the HotSync button before I did
dlpsh -p /dev/ttyUSB1
instead of what I had been doing all along – pressing HotSync after giving the command in the term
From there making Jpilot work was no big deal…
Most of them photographs
You should have asked frined Guru Bhat
He had the same issue, until I pointed out to him that the USB device does not exist until your PDA activates its USB port.
Can easily be seen if you watch /var/log/messages – plug ion the PDA, then hit the sync button – watch the device being created/recognised.
Yes – but strangely no one was on-line / available when I was doing this, anyway by not asking I also discovered that after a couple of bangs on the wall the head goes numb and further bangs are not registered at all