Re: jpilot

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 16, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: The mention of “/dev/ttyUSB1” could very well be a Linuxism not applicable to OS X. OS X might not expose the USB ports as a device; I don’t know. This post says it does not:

Re: jpilot

2014-01-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
to sync and then symlink to the USB tty device before it times out. In fact, jpilot somewhat depends on ancient Linux USB behavior which can be emulated to some extent with udev, but may not be easily achieved on OS X (and I recall having trouble with it even on older OS X, although it has been many

Re: jpilot

2014-01-16 Thread Lenore Horner
For obvious reasons, Palm has not been keeping its drivers up-to-date; http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33529_en.html#mac is still downloadable but I would be very very surprised if it worked on 10.9. I did find this: http://pccallup.sourceforge.net which may be a working

Re: jpilot

2014-01-16 Thread Ludwig
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Lenore Horner wrote: For obvious reasons, Palm has not been keeping its drivers up-to-date; http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33529_en.html#mac is still downloadable but I would be very very surprised if it worked on 10.9. I did find this:

Re: jpilot

2014-01-16 Thread Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E.
On Jan 16, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Lenore Horner lenorehor...@sbcglobal.net wrote: For obvious reasons, Palm has not been keeping its drivers up-to-date; http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33529_en.html#mac is still downloadable but I would be very very surprised if it worked on

Re: jpilot

2014-01-16 Thread Lenore Horner
will actually sync with the palm still under Mavericks — sort of: calendar and contacts will not sync but supposedly media will. So something lets my laptop talk to the palm when it’s plugged in but I don’t know where to find it and how to tell jpilot what to look for. Lenore

Re: jpilot

2014-01-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
in but I don’t know where to find it and how to tell jpilot what to look for. We’re talking about the jpilot port? It hasn’t been updated since 2006. Meanwhile new versions of jpilot have been released as recently as 2011. We should probably update the port to that version and then see where

Re: jpilot

2014-01-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
for your serial port. Something like: # ln -s /dev/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot Doesn’t that mean I should have /dev/ttyUSB1 already? I don’t. I don’t either. From the jpilot documentation: http://www.jpilot.org/docs/manual.html Serial Port Setup When syncing, J-Pilot uses the port and speed

jpilot

2014-01-15 Thread Lenore Horner
Since it annoys me no end to throw away hardware that works, I’m still trying to use a Palm TX on Mavericks. It may not be possible, but I thought I’d try jpilot. When I do and try to hot sync, it tells me pi_bind error: /dev/pilot No such file or directory Check your serial port

Re: jpilot

2014-01-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 15, 2014, at 22:44, Lenore Horner wrote: When I do and try to hot sync, it tells me pi_bind error: /dev/pilot No such file or directory Check your serial port and settings Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND That’s all very well, but I don’t find any instructions about what should

Re: jpilot

2014-01-15 Thread Ludwig
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Lenore Horner wrote: Since it annoys me no end to throw away hardware that works, I’m still trying to use a Palm TX on Mavericks. It may not be possible, but I thought I’d try jpilot. When I do and try to hot sync, it tells me pi_bind error: /dev/pilot