I have not had any problems to sync the treo 700p (and before 650) with kpilot. Kpilot offer two choices kaddress and evolution. I use kaddress. It works very well. I am running suse 10.2
-=terry(Denver)=- On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:26 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool > > of myself :( > > Nah, you're looking like a true geek! > > > She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I > > Good bloody luck! I've had no end of difficulty trying to > successfully and consistently sync various palm devices. This goes all > the way back to me trying with my Palm III under Mandrake 6 in '99. > > I'm not sure about gnome but in kde there are various options for > synching - all which work to some degree of success. Your main issues > are the user permissions to the usb virtual port that is created for > palm - which is usually /dev/pilot but symlinks to /TTY/USB/USB1 or > soemthinglikethat - and the timeouts on the palm device. > > What Palm Pilot does she have? > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Oh dear! I didn't think it would be that bad (and here's me hoping to get > this working with a whinedoze mobile device too!) > > The devices and permissions seem fine. It will run the core/original set of > conduits. That is, it does "backup" etc. (I don't know where it puts the > data, but it does the backup and a bunch of the other conduits that are > enabled!) > > However, it's the evolution-specific conduits that don't work. As I say, > initially they weren't listed, then I discovered the files that represent > them were present but in a directory other than where evolution was looking. > Then I copied the files and they just don't seem to work, but don't give > error messages. > > I'm not at her place right now, but if memory serves, it's a Palm Z1 (cheap > and cheerful, genuine Palm, about a year or so old, color screen). > > Cheers, > Simon > > "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a > man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play > Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. > http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
