Re: [Evolution] gpilotd problems

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

Is gnome-pilot even maintained?
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-pilot/
http://eskil.org/gnome-pilot

there seems to be some activity here,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/ I'll rejoin this list
then.

thanks,
Jack

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 20:05, Jack Coates wrote:
> Mandrake 9.0 on a Sony Vaio VX88 laptop with kernel 2.4.20-2mdk (visor.c
> v1.6), trying to sync a Palm V via a Prolific PL2303 USB to serial
> adapter as this laptop has no serial ports. Here's what that adapter
> looks like:
>
> Feb 27 16:08:30 chupacabra kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1,
> assigned address 2
> Feb 27 16:08:30 chupacabra kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod
> 0x67b/0x2303) is not claimed by any active driver.
> Feb 27 16:08:33 chupacabra /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup pl2303 for USB
> product 67b/2303/202
> Feb 27 16:08:33 chupacabra kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial support
> registered for PL-2303
> Feb 27 16:08:33 chupacabra kernel: usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter
> detected
> Feb 27 16:08:33 chupacabra kernel: usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter now
> attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
> Feb 27 16:08:33 chupacabra kernel: pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to
> serial adaptor driver v0.9
>
> & here's the load of libraries, tools, &c...
> [jack chupacabra jack]$ rpm -qa | grep pilot
> libgnome-pilot1-0.1.71-2mdk
> pilot-link-0.11.5-5.ximian.1
> gnome-pilot-conduits-0.10-1.ximian.1
> libgnome-pilot1-devel-0.1.71-2mdk
> evolution-pilot-1.2.2-1.ximian.1
> gnome-pilot-0.1.71-2mdk
> pilot-link-devel-0.11.5-5.ximian.1
>
> And here's my problem: it works fine using pilot-xfer -- I can do
> anything at all. gpilotd is totally useless, not even
> gpilot-install-file works. Any ideas? I've tried running gpilotd from a
> console to get its output, and it seems to be listening to the right
> port, it just never hears the Palm V and eventually times out.
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...