Comment 65 for bug 282491

Ed,
I'm not clear whether you triedconfiguring gnome-pilot with "usb" radio button selected and a device entry set to "/dev/ttyUSB1" instead of "usb:"? If you can use ttyUSB1 for jpilot you should be able to use it for gnome-pilot. There may be some other bug at work, but that's definitely worth trying.

The problem is that there are two ways of connecting to palms under linux: either via a serial tty emulation ("visor" module, ttyUSBn devices) or directly via libusb (no "visor" module, "usb:" pilot-link device). The bug I'm trying to flag is that your device needs a specific 'tweak' in the libusb code in pilot-link's libpisock so that it speaks correctly to the clie.