Hey all,

the results are in!

My Handspring Visor Prism
was able to sync to my linux machine just now.
I am using a serial cradle, purchased separately.

I'm running RedHat linux with 
kernel 2.4.9-12  (latest RedHat kernel)

I'm using pilot-link ver 0.9.3 from
http://www.daveltd.com/pilot/PalmOS/

and jpilot ver 0.99
(I think I installed it from the RedHat Workstation CD,
but you can also get it at http://www.jpilot.org)

I've not tried the USB cradle yet
(which comes standard with the Handspring)

I ran jpilot, did a sync, and the address book and appointment 
information that was on the Handspring is now viewable
in the jpilot GUI on Linux.

I was having a lot of problems getting 
everything up to the point it is now:

RedHat's web update was not updating my lilo.conf file
for some reason, so I had to manually fix that. ARGH!
I had the latest kernel installed, but lilo wasn't loading it.

I have to run pilot-link (and therefore jpilot)
as root. I have a permissions problem as a regular
user in accessing /dev/ttyS0. 

I tried fixing it with linuxconf, but I get when I try to run it, I get:
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by
server
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect
to ServerError message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

arghh!!  I haven't worked around that one yet.

also, I bought this tiny camera module that plugs into the
Handspring. I dont think jpilot is syncing the pictures
to Linux, since I had to install additional software in
Windows to do a sync with the camera. I haven't confirmed
Linux doesn't sync, though, so I'm going to poke around a bit.

finally, my PC's clock has been messed up and I've never been
able to get it right, so when I do a sync, jpilot sets my Handspring
to the PC time.  arghhh!


anyway, it works.
Greg

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