ttyS0, S2?

[Lonni J Friedman]

According to the information you provided, the device is /dev/ttyACM0,
which is a serial USB device.  /dev/ttyS* are for legacy serial.

On 11/5/07, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
> Her I go again, displaying my igernts.  One of my kids gave me a Palm
> Pilot a few years ago and I am trying to get my computer to find it.
> Using one of either Caldera e-Desktop, RH7, i think, or SuSE 9.0 and I
> think I was using JPilot, on this box.  Right now I've got Ubuntu 7.04
> that seemed to find everything until now.
>
>
> Here's what I did to try to locate the Pilot/Cradle.
> sudo dmesg | fgrep ttyS
> Password:
> [    1.129300] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [    1.130140] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
> Then I tried
> bob at bob-desktop:~$ dmesg | fgrep tty
> [    1.129300] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [    1.130140] 00:07: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> [   18.595478] cdc_acm 2-1:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
> bob at bob-desktop:~$
> So I figured ttyS0 is going to be busy?
>
> So I assumed ttyS2 would be the logical choice, (M$ comm. prolly not
> logical?), and got this.
> bob at bob-desktop:~$ sudo dmesg | fgrep /dev/ttyS2
> bob at bob-desktop:~$
> Of what is this indicative?  Also when I try to HotSync here's the error
> message.
> The connection between your handheld and the desktop could not be
> established.  Please check your settings and try again.
>
> I'm doing this 'cause it was easy on the old distros and thought it'd be
> a snap with Ubuntu.
> Thanks for any help.
>

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