Palm sync with linux

[Richard A Sharpe]

I would be interested in the Kde pilot sync, as I prefer KDE over gnome.

Thanks

Rich


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-----Original Message-----
From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org
[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Tom Buskey
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 10:55 PM
To: GNHLUG List
Subject: Re: Palm sync with linux

On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:12, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Hi all - first of all, thanks for the many pieces of info and
> suggestions wrt picking up a PDA.  I ended up getting a Palm m125 and
am
> pretty happy with it so far.  
> 
> I'm anxious to learn to be able to back it up onto my system which is
> Linux only.  All the software I've seen seems to think that Palms only
> sync via serial cable, yet the cradle I got with mine is USB.  Is
there
> a way to do the syncing via USB?  Or do I need to find a USB to serial
> adapter?  
> 
> Even a pointer to an appropriate web site would be a big help.  Thanks
> in advance!

I've been syncing on linux with pilot-link since... I have a pilot 1000
with a cracked screen :-)

I now use a visor deluxe with USB.

a) modprobe visor (to get the USB sync)
b) start the palm syncing 1st or the device won't appear.  This is the
other way around from serial.
c) the device is /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 (not 0).  It might be /dev/ttyUSB1 on
other distributions.  Plug it in, press the sync button, find /dev -name
'ttyUSB1'
d) Gnome has a pilot-sync applet that works with gnome-pim and
evolution.  It will listen to the USB & start syncing
e) kill off the gnome-pilotd if you want to use jpilot or pilot-link
directly.
f) coldsync is a rewrite of pilot-link that works well with USB.  Most
apps use pilot-link.  Using coldsync is like using pilot-link directly
but better.
g) I haven't used the KDE syncing stuff.  Anyone else?

If you crack your screen, etc, you can use pose or xcopilot to emulate
your pilot under linux and get to all your backed up apps & data until
the pilot gets fixed.  If you encrypt data on the pilot, the emulator
can be used when you don't have your pilot handy.  The emulators also
work on Mac and windows.

ObLinux:  Anyone play with the Linux on pilot stuff from *way* back?

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