Palm Tungsten
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INTRO
The Palm Tungsten is a PDA, (personal digital assistant), that you can connect to your box via bluetooth or a USB connection. Press the "hot sync" button and watch the palm sharing data with the computer. This includes having all of your diary entries, to do lists and contacts from Evolution. You can also install applications directly to your palm. This setting applies to -most- PDAs.
Background preperation
Not all palm devices are connected to the same USB port. Refer to This device matrix to see what port your device should be linked to. For instance my Tungsten T should be connected to /dev/ttyUSB0.
Configuration
There are two files to create to allow regular users to have access to the Palm; /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules and /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions. You need to be root to edit these files so be prepared to `sudo su` or `su` to change them. In a terminal, (as root), you can type
echo "KERNEL=\"ttyUSB0\" SYMLINK=\"pilot\"" >> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules
and then
echo "ttyUSB0:\$local:uucp:0660" >> /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions.
That's it! You are done :) If you prefer doing this manually, create the files with your editor of choice, save them and close the editor. You can check that the files have been created like this.
jayeola@15:06:46$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules
KERNEL="ttyUSB0" SYMLINK="pilot"
jayeola@15:07:24$ cat /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions
ttyUSB0:$local:uucp:0660
You don't have to reboot or update any services.
Our first sync over USB
- Connect the PDA to the USB port of the box.
- Have this text ready at a terminal `pilot-xfer -l` but -don't- press return just yet.
- Press the "sync" button, then press return to give the `pilot-xfer -l` command to the machine.
- You should see a listing of all of the files on your PDA.
sources and notes
Source; pilot-link notes; The developers of pilot-xfer recommend setting the pda to transfer data at 9,600 bps. The set-up for Evolution is under tools->pilot settings
