JPilot with USB support on RH7.2

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…

  • 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