Re: USB or network support not working?

[John Mizell <john mizell sbcglobal net>]

Thank you for your response. Hope that wasn't a case
of alien abduction with the disappearing developer.
Anyway to all those who work on gnome pilot, it is a
wonderful    utility and I do appreciate the work that
has gone into creating it.

Thank You,
John Mizell
 
--- Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:12, John Mizell wrote:
> > Gnome pilot has not been updated for many of the
> new
> > palm models. Also it does not work for the sony
> TH55
> > using usb. I have not been able to get it to work
> with
> > network connection either. Has development
> stopped? I
> > have tried this on fedora core 1,2, and now
> 3test1.
> 
> Hi John,
> Welcome to the world of gnome-pilot.  Development
> hasn't
> stopped, but it's a bit weird :)  The original
> developer
> literally disappeared, and the current maintainer
> keeps
> a very low profile, due to time constraints.  There
> have
> been some recent updates to the CVS, but there are a
> few
> patches that have been floating around here but
> haven't yet
> made it into CVS.
> 
> There are a couple of issues with the TH55 and
> linux.
> 
> Check out:
>
http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45838
> for a patch to the visor kernel module that you will
> need if your
> kernel is <= 2.6.4 (? I think).  As of 2.6.5, this
> has made it
> into the kernel sources.
> 
> Then, you need to add support for the TH55
> vendor/product ID to
> gnome pilot.  Preferably edit gnome-pilot.c, adding:
> 	"Vendor=054c ProdID=0144", /* Sony Clie TH55 */
> in the obvious place, and recompile, or you could
> try editing the
> gnome-pilot binary:
> 
>
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2004-July/msg00018.html
> 
> I know there's a network-sync howto at
> pilot-link.org, which
> might help.  I don't use network-sync so I don't
> know what the
> status is within gnome-pilot.  Search the list. 
> e.g.:
>
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-pilot-list/2004-June/msg00033.html
> and
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119657
> contains at least one success story and other
> frustrations...
> 
> Matt
> -- 
> Matt Davey		What do you call a fish with three eyes?
> 
> mcdavey mrao cam ac uk			A fiiish.
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