I now have my Axim x51 syncing with an exchange server and WinXP via ActiveSync
running in Vmware-player on a Kubuntu Gutsy host.
The causes of the problem were:
1. The first time I tried to connect the PDA to the machine it failed.
This left the PDA in a state where it would connect to my home windows
PC but was not detected by the vmware host (kubuntu gutsy) machine so it
wouldn't appear in lsusb or lshal. This was only fixed by a soft
reset of the PDA. This seems to be a bug in the Axim.
2. Upgrading from Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy changed something in the way
the PDA talks to the vmware guest OS over USB. This lead to the problem
of not being able to assign an IP address to the PDA from the WinXP
guest OS. This caused problem (1) above. I don't think this can
necessarily be called a bug, but something changed in either Gutsy or
the vmware-player debs available for Gutsy.
3. The failure to assign an IP problem was solved by Koen (many thanks) above
with
On PDA : Start-Settings-Connections-USBtoPC-Enable advanced
network functionality -- disable this
But this option was not available on my x51 because I was running an older
version of the Flash ROM (A05) and needed to upgrade to A12 before this option
was available to use. See the instructions at Aximsite.
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/x50-x51-forums/131684-a06-a12-step-step.html
Hope this fix helps others in the same boat.
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[SOLVED] USB PDA not detected since gutsy upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157279
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