I've been installing Mandrake 9.1 for a friend. All we need to do now is get kpilot to sync, but apparently some tricks a needed to make /dev/pilot point to a usb cradle. By default kpilot expects /dev/pilot to point to a serial device. If, after some serious googling I haven't got it going, then I'll be asking the next fix-it meeting to help out.
Yuri