palm device

[Shawn Badger]

I worked many a days trying to make my Palm do a usb hot sync. I even
managed to make it work in Fedora Core 4 with help from
http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096. The site says it
is for FC3, but it works in FC4 not FC5 however. After doing the updrage
to FC5 I was never able to make the USB sync work again, so I found a
nice serial cradle for my m515 and installed it and have never looked
back. Although when my m515 dies I will have to face this problem once
again. I heard from someone at Linux World that Suse 10 supports it
well, but I have not tested this claim yet.


On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 01:19 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> trying to backup/sync/etc. $gf's palm tungsten.
> 
> I plugged it into my USB port. When I hit the onscreen hotsync button
> /dev/palm comes up ( a link to /dev/ttyUSB1 ).
> 
> I've got kpilot[0] claiming 'Device link ready', but then it asks me to
> hit the hotsync button. Since it's already in hotsync mode just to get to
> that point I have no hotsync button to press.
> 
> At some point I got a backup started via pilot-sync and the command line,
> but it borked on Blazer.prc, which appears to be a known issue. I haven't
> been able to get back to that point.
> 
> I am also out of live chickens, garlic and skittles, so the incantations
> aren't going to work :(.
> 
> [0] I'd really rather be using gnome-pilot, but it just hangs waiting for
> me to hit the hotsync button and never even get a base connection :(. Same
> results for jpilot and coldsync.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans