[Evolution] Re: Evolution 1.4.5 and Solaris 9 : Email works fine but not the rest

["Peter O'Shea" <peter oshea analog com>]

> I have managed to convince the installer to install
> Evolution 1.4.5 on a SUN Blade 150 running Solaris 9.

I've got evo running on a SunBlade 100 with Solaris 8.
Compiled from source, tasks and calendar work fine.

> At least having access to my Emails using Evo is start ...
> but I guess that I am far from being able to synchronize
> my visor using the USB port of my SUN Blade workstation ...

You may be out of luck with USB syncing.  USB syncing relies on a USB
driver that somehow emulates a serial connection.  This driver is
included in Linux as a kernel module, but Solaris 8 doesn't have it.  I
doubt that Solaris 9 would, either.  Every time a new device comes on
the market, somebody has to update visor.h in the Linux kernel to
recognize it...not the kind of thing Sun would do.

I got my Sony Clie to sync by constructing my own serial cradle. Sony
doesn't sell a serial cradle for the SJ20, but the device will work with
one.  The port on the SunBlade is /dev/term/a.


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