On Friday 08 July 2005 13:00, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > 3 - I did alot of experimenting (including connecting to different USB > > plug both with and without a hub). For some reason, out of abot 20 > > experiments I did in the past hour, most of the timed out on the Palm, > > but in 2 cases I got a dta error message from pilot-xfer. And more > > interesting - In 2 cases, pilot-xfer ACTUALLY WORKED. But I haven't been > > able to see any reason why on those 2 tries pilot-xfer DID talk to the > > Palm. > > In my experience - pilot-xfer rarely works, as you found out, but kpilot > works always (when /dev/pilot is created). > This is with kernel 2.6 (FC2,3,4). With kernel 2.4.23 which I used > before installing Fedora, the TE worked flawlessly.
I saw this message after sending the results of my experiments and I must say that now I'm completely confused. Of course, I can't argue with your experience, but 1 - I've used pilot-xfer for over 4 years with no problems (on my Palm 3C). Of course that's a serial connection and not USB. Did you mean to say that the problem occurs with USB? 2 - Since I'm quite sure that Kpilot uses pilot-xfer services, why woul Kpilot work whaen pilot-xfer doesn't? 3 - I GOOGLED and found no significant amount of complaints about pilot-xfer with a USB ZIRE72. In fact, I found many claims that it works :-) 4 - I tried what you suggested (Kpilot) and it worked only once out of about 10 attempts. The autodetect wizard did not find the Palm and I had to manually configure for /dev/pilot. Without going into all the details, while trying Kpilot I kept a terminal window open to see what was running and I found that I'm back to the problem I had earlier with multiple ttyUSB* devices. Also, /dev/pilot wich should point to ttyUSB1 sometimes points at ttyUSB3. 5 - Even if Kpilot did work, it's not what I need. I don't want a GUI solution because I have severaal scripts I've written over the years to use pilot-xfer for various tasks - backup, program installation, etc. A GUI won't do what I need. Fir instance, I've set up rotating backups of my valuable data so that the backup script can save different versions on disc or CD and provide me with a log of which backups were done when, etc. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
