Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

[g <gideon2 verizon net>]

Thanks to the folks who responded.
Well, I just wanted to let folks know that it seems to pretty much be working 
now.  Not sure what I did.  Actually to tell the truth, I am not sure that it 
WASN"T working before!  I may not have either had all the conduits activated 
nor known where to look to view the synched palm data.

Its all pretty confusing to me in truth.  I hope to ask more questions soon, 
once i have time to do more exploring!  Actually on my initial test while the 
palm data is synching to linux, it doesn't appear that any data created in 
the desktop application is synching back to the palm.  I think I have the 
conduits to synch, but I will have to look at it more closely when I have 
more time.  I trust I can draw an all you folks more knowledgable about these 
things than I.

Thanks again!


On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:24 pm, g wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing.
> I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch
> with built in programs under mandrake 9.2
> I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both
> jpilot as well as kpilot.
>
> When I try to synch, this is what kpilot has to say about it:
>
> ==================================
>
> Version: KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH)
> Version: pilot-link 0.11.8
> Version: KDE 3.1.3
> Version: Qt 3.1.2
>
> HotSync Log
>
> 22:17:01  Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses
> DevFS.
> 22:17:02  Trying to open device...
> 22:17:02  Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry)
> 22:17:08  Device link ready.
> 22:17:08  Checking last PC...
> 22:17:09  KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSync starting...
>
> 22:17:09  [Conduit abbrowser_conduit]
> 22:17:09  Running with flags:
> 22:17:10  No Files to install
> 22:17:10  End of HotSync
>
> 22:17:10  HotSync Completed.
> 22:17:12  Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses
> DevFS.
> 22:17:13  Trying to open device...
> 22:17:13  Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry)
> ==================================
>
> There does seem to be some communication taking place between the computer
> and PDA as the PDA hotsynch log registers:
> "KPilot 4.3.10 (BRANCH) HotSynch" and shows the proper date and time that I
> tried to initiate the synch.
>
> I have tried various settings both on the pilot as well as in kpilot.
> What does "/dev/pilot" mean?  I looked in the /dev directory and found no
> entry for "pilot".  Do I need to create this?  If so how?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated !
> Thanks a bunch.
> Gideon Turner