Syncing Palm V with J-Pilot

[Scott H]

Actually, it is only when using a USB port cradle
that you hit the Palm's HotSync button first. 
With a serial port cradle such as I have, you
must hit "Sync" first in J-Pilot, then on the
Palm.  Anyway I solved this one by just switching
to the other serial port and got it working.  

Now I can sync, but whenever I try to use the
installer to put on some new software, J-Pilot's
little log screen just stays at 

"Installing whatever.prc"

And the Palm Pilot eventually pops up with the
connection between the Palm and the PC has been
lost.  Has anyone seen this problem?

Thanks.

> From: Liberty Young <liberty@embeddedx86.com>
> Sounds like something i did incorrectly when i
> was first figuring it all
> out. It took me a few tries before i figured it
> out....I never  would have figured it out if i 
> hadn't been using the USB cradle. 
> 
> Click the sync button on the Palm Pilot First, 
> then click the sync button in JPilot (instead
> of doing it the other way
> around, like it sounds like you're doing).
> 
> I figured it out by JPilot complaining that
> /dev/ttyUSB0 didn't exist, 
> but i noticed that it would only exist after I
> pressed the pilot's sync
> button, and only last while the palm pilot was
> trying to sync with the
> laptop. 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 22:17, Scott H wrote:
> > Still trying to sync my Palm V using JPilot
> on
> > Mandrake 8.2.  I've tried pointing JP at
> > /dev/ttyS0 and this eliminates any error
> messages
> > from JP, instead it just sits there with
> this:
> > 
> > Syncing on device /dev/ttyS0
> > Press the Hotsync button now.
> > 
> > And on the Pilot, after pressing the HotSync
> > button, and waiting a minute or so, it pops
> up:
> > 
> > "The connection between your handheld
> computer
> > and the desktop could not be established..."
> > 
> > I've checked permissions on the serial port,
> > and these allow any user to connnect.  What 
> > am I missing??
> > Scott


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