Re: Palm III xe

["Dmitri Minaev" <minaev@gmail.com>]

On Sarge, I can sync Palm IIIxe with Evolution via Gnome Pilot applet,
but I use serial connection only. Perhaps, you could use pilot-link to
find out if the problem is with kpilot or the connection itself. I
recall some problems when I could backup my Palm with pilot-xfer, but
not with any GUI tools, because they required a userID to be installed
on Palm. I did it with install-user and it worked.

I didn't create /dev/pilot and use /dev/ttyS0 instead.

On 12/19/06, Rob Wright <debianrob@poncacity.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm new to Debian, so please forgive me if this has been beaten to death.
> Through Red Hat, Fedora, and OpenSuSE I've not been able to get my old
> Palm IIIxe to connect and ultimately sync. This is something I was really
> hoping to be able to do with Debian but I'm beginning to wonder if it's
> possible at all.
>
> I have the original serial syncing cradle, with an USB adapter. Using the
> serial connection and KPilot, the Palm acts like it's talking to kpilot and
> tells me it's connecting and cleaning up but it's unable to sync, which is
> farther than I've gone with anything else. That's using the configuration
> wizard in kpilot, and autodetecting. Using the usb adapter gets me no
> connection at all and the "unable to connect" message on the Palm itself.
>
> I've told kpilot to use /dev/ttyS0 directly, and I've linked /dev/ttyS0
> to /dev/pilot and tried it that way with no luck.
>
> I've found TONS of information through Google over the last year or two, but
> nothing that actually works. Is it possible to sync up this thing with Linux
> or have I been tilting at windmills? Assuming it is possible (I believe that
> ultimately anything with Linux is possible given enough effort) can someone
> point me to a dangerously simple and clear cut method for doing so?
>
> I have Etch installed, as of last Thursday.



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With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev