Palmpilot sync problems with both kpilot, jpilot, pilot-sync, ...

[Bruno Costacurta]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 22:13, Robert Locke wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 16:01 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 14:55 -0400, quoth Robert Locke:
> >
> > =>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:26 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > =>> On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 13:08 -0400, quoth Robert Locke:
> > =>>
> > =>> =>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:49 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > =>> =>> On Thursday, Aug 4th 2005 at 08:24 -0400, quoth Rodolfo Alcázar:
> > =>> =>>
> > =>> =>Personally I am just using the "new" pilot-link to perform backups
> > of my =>> =>Palm and ignoring the synchronization capabilities with
> > Evolution, that =>> =>I used to rely on in FC3.....   And, I'm trying to
> > relax and learn how =>> =>to spell P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E..... :-)  Hopefully
> > I'll have full sync'ing =>> =>again soon (looks like updates-testing has
> > a new gnome-pilot - hmmmm, =>> =>something to play with this
> > weekend???)....
> > =>> =>
> > =>>
> > =>> I am syncing today. I sent a message out on how to have both version
> > (the =>> old and the new) of pilot-link installed and for your older
> > version of =>> jpilot to also be installed so the old one will work.
> > =>
> > =>I'm ready to bite....  Where should I hunt down that message that talks
> > =>about having both versions installed?  That would just be generally
> > =>educational for me....
> > =>
> > =>My sync'ing (or should I say backing up) with my old Palm V (actually
> > an =>IBM WorkPad) has been fine with just pilot-link.  I am most
> > interested =>in getting the functionality going back in to Evolution, so
> > jpilot won't =>help me much, and backtracking to the old gnome-pilot and
> > evolution is =>probably not feasible for me....  I am also looking to
> > transition over =>to a Treo shortly since I am beginning to be hit by the
> > "stylus-drift" =>on the old WorkPad....
> > =>
> > =>--Rob
> > =>
> >
> >
> > This is what I did to work with jpilot. You *may* not need to roll jpilot
> > back but this now works. The --relocate causes there to not be any file
> > collisions.
> >
> > >From Jul19:
> >
> > As has been discussed on the jpilot list and also posted here:
> >
> > pilot-link is broken under FC4. The solution is to go with the pilot-link
> > from FC3. Get the old rpms and install them. If you use jpilot
> >
> > rpm -ivh --force --relocate /usr=/opt/jpilot jpilot-0.99.7-2.i386.rpm \
> >    pilot-link-0.11.8-8.i386.rpm
>
> Hey, cool.  Guess I didn't see that a few weeks ago, thanks for
> re-posting it....
>
> --Rob

I'm still unable to connect my Palm under FC4 (neither previous FC as far as I 
remember...)

As indicated previously in the list, I executed :
rpm -ivh --force --relocate /usr=/opt/jpilot jpilot-0.99.7-2.i386.rpm \
    pilot-link-0.11.8-8.i386.rpm
--> OK

After plugin my Palm, /var/log/message :

Aug  4 22:56:27 localhost kernel: usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using 
uhci_hcd and address 18
Aug  4 22:56:27 localhost kernel: visor 5-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
converter detected
Aug  4 22:56:27 localhost kernel: usb 5-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Aug  4 22:56:27 localhost kernel: usb 5-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS 
converter now attached to ttyUSB1

(note: Is it acceptable to have both USB0 and USB attached ?)

Then I tried to use pilot-link to make backup (I don't need synchro):

./pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -b /home/bruno/pilot-link/
   DEPRECATED: The application is calling pilot_connect()
   Listening to port: /dev/ttyUSB0
   Please press the HotSync button now... connected!
Error read system info on /dev/ttyUSB0

Any clue ?
Thanks,
Bruno