Palm m500 USB issues

[Charles Ramsey]

I have been running Fedora on a Sony 800MHz Duron Laptop with pretty
good success.  I have managed to get issues such as printing to a
Windows printer, sharing files from Windows boxes to my laptop (going
the other way is a work in progress).

What has stumped me so far is getting my Palm m500 to synch to Evolution
using a USB cradle.  I have tried using ColdSync, MultiSync and
gnome-pilot without success.  The problem appears to be that the laptop
does not recognize that the Palm exists.

I have tried everything it seems except mouth to disc resuscitation so I
am asking has anyone encountered a similar situation and successfully
overcome it.

I am still somewhat a newbie at Linux but am willing to listen and
learn.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Charles