Re: plam m500 and gnome-pilot (evolution)

[Andreas Leitner <nozone sbox tugraz at>]

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 15:05, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Good news!

> 	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.

Will do that.
 
> > 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.

Thanks alot for the information,
Andreas