one more Sony Clie post

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:17 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 11/29/05, jack wallen <jlwallen at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > Okay,
> >
> > So before I give my Clie the boot I thought I'd post one last time. I've
> > pretty much tried everything I can...to no avail. The sony clie just
> > won't sync with FC4. I find this rather strange because I was at least
> > able to get it to sync with some success (though not much) with FC1,
> > FC2, and (to an even lesser extent) FC3.
> >
> > I know this is probably not the place for this rant (because I've ranted
> > about it here a number of times) but why is it that the Fedora (and
> > quite possibly the Linux community all together) can't seem to support
> > hardware that all other platforms have zero problems with? I can sync
> > with my mac without a hitch and I could sync to Windows (of course I
> > have no Windows machines in my house - thank goodness) without a
> > problem.
> >
> > Has anyone had any success syncing a Peg SJ30 with FC4? If so, what's
> > the secret? What magic must I perform to get this PDA to sync?
> 
> Have you tried this:
> 
> http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096
> 
> I had a Treo 650 for a while and it worked most of the time. I still
> had to do a little finger-magic with the sync buttons (that is, I had
> to hit the sync button in jpilot, and then hit the sync button on the
> treo at about the right time--~1 second later--to get a reliable
> sync). I got used to it pretty quickly.

I sync my Palm Tungsten E2, ancient Visor Prism and (gasp!) my Tapwave
Z2 to FC4 all the time.  Granted, I'm using bluetooth, but it works.
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