Treo 650

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Oct 4 22:42:20 MST 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 21:12 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Alan Dayley wrote:
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> > However, I found a promising link on FedoraForum:
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> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=373099&postcount=11
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> > I am reading up on the link in that post to see what I want to do next.
> 
> There appears, from the above link and links in that link, etc., to be a
> combination of issues at play here:
> 
> - - udev is slow making the /dev/ttyUSB devices so pilot-link and other
> apps timeout looking for them before they get created.  This is a kernel
> issue starting with 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.
> 
> - - The pilot-link API changed a some point and the gnome-pilot and other
> apps were not yet updated to handle it.  FC3 and FC4 included the new
> pilot-link beta with new APIs but the user apps were still on the old API.
> 
> - - It is still possible that certain palm devices are not in the proper
> config files.
> 
> I am currently working on FC3.  According to the references, the best
> version of pilot-link to use is pilot-link-0.12.0-pre4.  This is not in
> the FC3 repositories so I downloaded the source from
> http://www.pilot-link.org/node/166 and am compiling them now.
> 
> FC4 update-testing repositories should have the new pilot-link package
> so I'll try installing it via yum when I get to that computer, probably
> not tonight.
> 
> After that I will follow the "bypass udev" step in the above link and go
> from there.
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I had always been able to sync my Kyocera (USB) without issue with
pilot-link-0.8-8

not sure what you are gaining here.

Craig


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