Re: plam m500 and gnome-pilot (evolution)

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker gnu-designs com>]

> I have read somewhere that Palm USB support is only in an experimental CVS
> Branch? Is this the latest status? How can I try it?

	pilot-link's USB code has been updated already, and merged back with
HEAD, thanks to the great work by jpr. You can grab an up-to-the-second
snapshot of the CVS code by clicking on the 'micro-snapshot' link on the
pilot-link.org website.

	Note: it will probably break gnome-pilot if you install this and
overwrite your previous pilot-link version, unless you update gnome-pilot as
well. We can help you in #pilot-link on Undernet, if you need it.

> There is also a page describing how to get the m500 to sync via pppd and
> pilot-link.

	The reason this works is because the new USB Palm devices use a
different protocol "stacking", which is more like the 'net' sync than the
'local' sync, hence pppd works.

> Is it true that gnome-pilot uses pilot-link as implementation? If so can
> this pppd trick be used for gnome-pilot as well?

	Yes, and yes. But totally unnecessary. Just update to the latest
(unreleased) snapshot, make the adjustments to gnome-pilot as required, and
away you go.

	...or wait until we release both in working order.



/d