Re: Handspring and evloution

Subject: Re: Handspring and evloution
From: George A. Dowding (dowdingg@mazzy.math.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 18:01:33 AKDT

As a followup. I got the usb working without too much difficulty. I
had to make the usb devices o+rwx and set the user name and user id
using 'install-user'. Neither of those issues are really discussed in
any of the how-to's that I came across. Evolution isn't working, and
I don't have time to make it happy. Jpilot seems to work fine for my
needs.

James Gribbin writes:
>
> There was just a bunch of discusion of syncing the handspring w/usb to
> evolution on the ximian-gnome list. Several people appeared to have
> tried it and only one I saw called it usable. I believe it was on a Man
> 8.1 box, but I wouldn't swear to it. Maybe those people were still using
> kernels < 2.4.17.
>
> Jim Gribbin
>
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:47, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> >
> > On 29 Sep 2002, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >From what I've seen about usb syncs on the Ximian-Gnome list, usb
> > > syncing is iffy at best. General consensus seems to be to get a serial
> > > sync going. I use a TRG Pro(palm 3) with a serial cradle, that works
> > > pretty well (not 100%).
> > >
> > > The packages installed on my RH 7.3 box are:
> > >
> > > gnome-pilot
> > > gnome-pilot-conduits
> > > pilot-link
> > >
> > > I would think you would need about the same ones on suse.
> >
> > What have you heard about it being iffy? I do syncs quite reliably via USB,
> > and even use the memory stick as extra storage (using the SCSI and USB storage
> > modules). Pilot tools may not have gotten a stable rev yet, but the current
> > cvs version is solid enough to be a release candidate.
> >
> > Now, the gnome support for USB is only in cvs as well, from what I hear, so
> > don't expect a stable rev to be able to use it. I always sync from either
> > JPilot or the shell, so it's a bit of a moot point for me.
> >
> > --Arthur Corliss
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> >
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Thanks,
George

dowdingg@math.uaa.alaska.edu 
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~dowdingg

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