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…