GolfProRM Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I noticed that Mandrake 9.1 comes with a Palm Desktop Client, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to hotsync!! Anybody messed with this and figured it out?P.S. I'm trying to sync a Palm m515 to it using a USB cradle...TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent007 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I had tried this out on RedHat 8....Open up Evolution Tools>Pilot Settings. After confuguring, u will be able to export the contact list and vice-versa.hope this helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Hi Ryan,Man, you seem to have a lot of gadgets for a ¨poor¨ student ! :D007´s Advice looks like the good one ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 13, 2003 Author Share Posted May 13, 2003 Evolution tools?? I'm confused as to what/where those are in Mandrake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Ryan007 means start your mail program Evolution, point your mouse at ¨tools¨ from the menu-bar and look for Pilot settings. :DI´m sure you´re bashing your head on the monitor right now ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 13, 2003 Author Share Posted May 13, 2003 Ahh... Evolution... doh! Never use it... I'll see if it has anything to do with the settings though...Is there something I need to do to get the USB to recognize the cradle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistedcranium Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I have a Palm Zire....one of the cheap-o versions, not the new one with the camera. (Drool)Anyhoo.....I've been trying to get it to work in Red Hat 9 and having such a tough time. I can only get it to recognize the /dev entry under the root account. So I'll add my stories here in case something is similar to your situation.I was poking at the palm through KPilot. I'm not sure if M'drake comes with that package or not, but RH 9 did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Is there something I need to do to get the USB to recognize the cradle?Nope, it should Plug and *Pray* ! ( since the last few versions of mandrake USB PnP works, well kind of )twistedcranium: try the evolution route ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 13, 2003 Author Share Posted May 13, 2003 TwistedCranium... I was trying to use KPilot also (Yes it's in Mandrake)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I have Palm Vx, and I plan to get it to work with my infared port.. I always use that port to synchronize anyway.. Now it would be cool if Palm supports Bluetooth lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 13, 2003 Author Share Posted May 13, 2003 Bruno... you said linux was "plug and pray", but looking in my /dev folder, I can't seem to find anything usb (i.e. ttyUSB1)... I need to figure out how to get this to work, and then all I have to do is make a link called /dev/pilot to wherever the USB dev is at... Then it should work... am I missing something to get the USB to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Ryan,You should have a /dev/usb dirsectory you shoul be able to see it thereMount it with mount /dev/usb/xxxmount /mnt/xxxxB) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 13, 2003 Author Share Posted May 13, 2003 Hmm... there's a /dev/usb folder, but there's nothing in it... don't know if this has anything to do with it or not...Also, I installed usbview, and it says that nothing's connected to the USB ports... if I press the hotsync button, and refresh usbview, it shows an unknown device.... If I click configure, it gives me two things to look at: /proc/bus/usb/devices or /proc/bus/usb/driversI browsed to the usb folder, and noticed that both the drivers and devices files are empty documents... just some more info for anybody searching... I'm playing with stuff trying to find anything... I also need to reboot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 O.K Ryan, Lets crack this one, where are we at ? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 We're nowhere... can't seem to figure out this USB thing... Everything I've read says the usb should just work with my kernel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Well it should, already two kernel versions back !Is your Palm compatible ? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 Yeah... should be... I found something about /etc/hotplug/blacklist I found my usb-uhci in this file... could that be my problem?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 I found this site... it's what mentioned the /etc/hotplug/blacklisthttp://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tut...torials/4445/1/I need to reboot to have the usb-uhci startup :)brb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Yes ! that is your USB !Please send me:cat /etc/modules.conf >modules.txtThis will put a textfile in your /home doubleclick it to open, copy it and paste it here ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 robeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsiprobeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcdabove snd-via82xx snd-pcm-ossalias eth0 8139tooalias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xxalias /dev/nvidia* nvidiaoptions nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=0 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=0# I2C module optionsalias char-major-89 i2c-devHere's the modules.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Right it is in there !Just get it out of the black list ( comment it with a # in front ) Then reboot ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 did that... rebooted... nothing seems to have changed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Ryan,Did you try Google, : Linux ¨your type of palm¨ and then the yellow tab for ¨groups¨ Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 Oi... Thanks for the google tip Bruno...Think I found the problem Unfortunately the M500/M505 USB doesn't yet work on Linux. The actualpalm<->linux link used by most of the GUI tools is a command line +library package called pilot-link. From what I hear Palm are beingdifficult and won't tell the guys who maintain pilot-link how the M500USB link works, so they are trying to reverse engineer it. The USBlink for the handspring machines works, so it ought to be possibleonce they figure it out. E-Mail Palm and complain to them about it,perhaps if enough people do they will change their mind.Oh well... guess I can't do it :(Will have to keep booting into Winblows then (at least 2x per week) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 That is a real BUMMER Ryan ! After all the searching we did !Well at least it will give you an excuse to see good ´ol windows again from time to time ! So it won´t get rusty. ( you can always import the files from windows )After all you have to keep up with both OS´ses ! Would not want you to loose all your knowledge, would we ? Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 Yeah, I suppose you're right... gotta keep my windows knowledge fresh...P.S. I recall you wanting to do a shutdown -r now as your regular user... in Mandrake 9.1 the commands reboot and halt work instead of shutdown :)They're getting more "user" friendly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Ryan,I tried Halt, does not work either as normal user ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolfProRM Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 Ryan,I tried Halt, does not work either as normal user ! BrunoWeird.... it does for me... just tried it Had to power back on the system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I told you my system is haunted ! For a week I am chasing this phantom, need gostbusters ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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