Re: [SAGE] Syncing PDA and Linux

[Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:59 -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:40:48AM -0500, Bill Benedetto wrote:
> >However, my situation is slightly different:
> > 1) I'm using evolution/gpilotd instead of kpilot.
> > 2) My syncing WAS working until some debian upgrade that I did.
> >    I BELIEVE it was a normal etch upgrade but I HAVE upgraded my
> >    kernel recently (from 2.6.15 to 2.6.18).
> > 3) I'm running Etch instead of Sarge.
> 
> Since both of us are using the 2.6 kernel I think that may be the issue.
> The problem seems to be in the kernel's unwillingness to reliably create
> the /dev/ttyUSB? file.

There is some weirdness with USB synch with newer kernels (2.16 and
above.) I've hit similar issues in The USB subsystems seems to connect
and disconnect at random with palm devices. It seems that daemons which
poll never work. 

One thing that seems to work is to start HotSync on the PDA. When
Hotsync "Connecting to..." on the PDA, start the sync session manually
on the computer side. And if all goes well the client on the computer
should connect and sync. And further help can be gleamed in the list
archives at the www.pilot-link.org site. Usually if you are having a
problem someone else has had it before.

And to get my Treo 700p to sync I've good luck using the new 0.12
version the pilot-link packing using the new libusb connection.
Unfortunately all of the palm synch packages are dependent on 0.11.*
versions.  So I'm making do with pilot-link 0.12, connecting with usb:
and the new OpenSync (www.opensync.org) (successor to MultiSync).

-- 
Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>