Re: Handsrping Treo 600

[Dan Freed <dlfreed charter net>]

I have a Treo 600, but I have not had much better luck.  To make it talk at 
all you will need to add the Treo's Vendor ID and Product ID to the gpilotd.c 
file and recompile.  That wasn't terribly difficult.  The end result was even 
worst than not talking.  It pretty much just locks my machine up almost every 
time I sync with gpilot.  I can't find anything in the error log to give me 
any indication to the problem.  But, when it happens it is locked hard, it 
will not even respond to pings.

I have since switched to using kpilotd.  While not perfect, it at least syncs 
without locking me up.  

I would love to use gpilot to sync with Evolution and my company's exchange 
server, but korganizer in KDE 3.2 at least has a means to grab stuff from 
exchange now so I can get my calendar synched.  Now if I can just get my 
company to enable imap again, I could probably just switch to Kontact.

Dan

On Monday 01 March 2004 10:45 pm, Simon Wong wrote:
> Does anyone have gnome-pilot working with the Handspring Treo 600?
>
> I have done a *lot* of searching on the web but have not found any
> information that has been able to help me.
>
> I am able to backup the Treo using "pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1" and it
> all works fine.
>
> Unfortunately, when I setup gnome-pilot to use that port nothing happens
> regardless of which order I start gpilotd and press the hotsync button.
>
> I am using Debian Unstable:
>
>         $ dpkg -l gnome-pilot gnome-pilot-conduits
>         Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>
>        
> Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>
>         |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
>
>         uppercase=bad)
>
>         ||/ Name           Version        Description
>
>        
> +++-==============-==============-=========================================
>=== ii  gnome-pilot    2.0.10-3       A GNOME applet for management of your
> Palm P
>         ii  gnome-pilot-co 2.0.10-2       Conduits for gnome-pilot
>
> It seems very odd that it works with pilot-link but not gnome-pilot.
>
> The only other thing that I have noticed was that one page showed
> /var/log/messages showing a serial interface assigned to the device but
> I don't get any such messages.  In any case pilot-xfer works.
>
> Any tips greatly appreciated...