Fwd: Problem w/ serial sync on Thinkpad - RH9

[Susan Macchia]

Hello everyone.  I have posted this question to the Jpilot list but have had no
response.  I was wondering if anyone here could help?  I am stumped.

--- Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:56:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net>
> Subject: Problem w/ serial sync on Thinkpad - RH9
> To: JPilot User List <jpilot at jpilot.org>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am having trouble doing a serial sync on my IBM Thinkpad (T22), running
> RH9. 
> I had the same trouble when RH8 was on it.
> 
> I have jpilot configured to talk to /dev/ttyS0
> 
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     uucp       4,  64 Jan 30  2003 /dev/ttyS0
> 
> I tried chowning to my user name with the same result.  The laptop is dual
> boot
> and I am able to sync (COM1) using Palm Desktop.  
> 
> ****************************************
>  Syncing on device /dev/ttyS0
>  Press the HotSync button now
> ****************************************
> pi_bind Illegal seek
> Check your serial port and settings
> Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND
> Finished
> 
> When I try the following with pilot-xfer, I get the following:
> % pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyS0 --backup /home/sue/pilot
> 
>    ERROR: Invalid argument
>    Unable to bind to port '/dev/ttyS0'
>    Please use --help for more information
> 
> Any ideas where I can go from here?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Sue Macchia
> 
> 
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