Fwd: Problem w/ serial sync on Thinkpad - RH9

[Richard Thompson]

I had a similar problem with a USB Zire 71 on a Toshiba Satellite. My 
problem was that my user was not a member of the proper group (UUCP 
in your case).  That was RH 9.  

Also, I noticed that your setserial returned an unrecognized UART.  
Perhaps it would be worth your time to investigate what UART you have 
and manually set the value via setserial.  It's been awhile since I 
messed with serial ports much, but if I remember correctly I set up 
my serial port definitions in rc.local on a Caldera system.  Lastly, 
have you checked that both devices are using the same serial port 
speeds and lowered them to see if that has any effect?  Again, this 
might be affected by what the linux does/doesn't see in the UART.

- Rich Thompson

- Rich Thompson

On 5 Feb 2004 at 11:08, Susan Macchia wrote:

> Thanks, I looked there, but unfortunately they discussing a perms/ownership
> issue, which isn't my problem...sigh.
> 
> setserial returned the following (if it means anything)
> 
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> 
> TIA
> 
> > Google to the rescue perhaps:
> >
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&threadm=20020726141811.A592%40nostromo.fis.uerj.br&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fas_epq%3DUnable%2520to%2520bind%2520to%2520port%2520%27/dev/ttyS0%27%26safe%3Doff%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26lr%3D%26num%3D30%26hl%3Den
> > 
> > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Susan Macchia wrote:
> > 
> > > 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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