pda

[der.hans]

Am 30. May, 2007 schwätzte betty so:

moin moin betty,

> i have had a palm 650 for about a year now, i changed the antennae to a
> small flat one, but other than that it has had no problems. i bought it
> for $300 last year on e-bay because i needed one that was configured for
> alltel, for certain area of coverage reasons.
> i have been really happy with it; long battery life, phone, got all my
> info. from my old palm, camera, mp3 player, internet access, email
> etc..also i do a lot of word processing and spreadsheet stuff on it when
> i have 'down time' .
> only problem i've had, and it's my own issue of being a gui-user idiot,
> i have never been able to sync it to my linux boxen, here or at my
> cabin, but it does fine with the evil empire.  (any help here would be
> greatly appreciated, hint hint.)
> (it also is palm OS not m$ OS.)

See the list archives from posts from me about working with some
palm-based device. I think I posted what I did to finally get it working.

Essentially, I had to make sure the device node got created before trying
to sync.

ciao,

der.hans
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