Re: Syncing with m500 (serial cradle) ends abruptly

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 10:35, D Canfield wrote:
> I have a palm m500 and a serial cradle.  Syncing only half works.  The
> synchronization starts, runs a random amount of time and then stops. 
> The palm unit does not report a failed sync, but the applet window just
> disappears after the first few conduits.  Basically, each time I hit the
> sync button, it gets a bit further along in the synchronization process.
> 
> Running gpilotd from the command line I see that just before the sync
> ends, it displays a number of "Weird Packet" messages, and usually one
> of the conduits reports "Wrote x of X records, which is BAD", then there
> is a complaint about the next conduit being "Unable to open conduit!".
> 
> I'm willing to help debug this if someone can tell me what I need to
> do.  I'm guessing the m500/m505 must send a set of packets that are
> slightly different than other palms, and I suppose there haven't been
> many complaints since the USB cradle that normally comes with the m500
> doesn't work with pilot-sync anyway.   

Syncing the m5xx series in USB cradles does not currently work with the
released pilot-link/gnome-pilot (due to lacking in pilot-link).  I have
an experimental branch in pilot-link that generally works with that
series but needs a lot of tidying still.

-JP
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