Pilot installation

[cal herrmann]

Trying to install my Palm Pilot, in Mandrake, sometimes trying with KDE and 
sometimes Gnome,  I got a message /dev/pilot doesn't exist; made a link but 
maybe did it wrong:
ln -s /dev/cua0 /dev/pilot
Now I get the message to check permissions, can't access.
Apparently chmod doesn't on a link, I don't get any change (from lr-xr-xr-x) 
trying on /dev/cua0 or /dev/pilot.
Now ls -l on /dev/cua0 shows a link to /dev/cua/0
I don't know what that means.
Quick education, please? Thanks, Cal