Mageia3 doesn't like my Palm Zire 72

Mageia3 doesn't like my Palm Zire 72

shimi linux-il at shimi.net
Sun Aug 11 08:16:31 IDT 2013


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to connect my Palm Zire 72 (yeah - I know - who uses an 8
> year old Palm device?). The following command worked on my old Mandriva
> 2011 but not on Mageia 3.
>
> [solomon at shlomo1 ~]$ pilot-xfer --list --port=ttyUSB1
>    Unable to bind to port: ttyUSB1
>


> ls -laR |grep ttyUSB1
> crw-rw-r--   1 root    dialout   188,   1 Aug 11 06:37 ttyUSB1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   10 Aug 11 06:37 188:1 -> ../ttyUSB1
>

I notice you're not root. Is the user 'solomon' member of the group
'dialout'? check out the 'id' command.

-- Shimi
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