Syncing PocketPC

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> All I've found on google regarding syncing a PocketPC (Dell x50v
> WM2003SE) with linux has been very discouraging. Has anybody had any
> success stories? Mind sharing them with me? Now that I've no windows
> partition (It went to Kubuntu- nice distro) I've no way to access the
> data on the desktop- something that I need. I'd prefer native KDE
> apps, but anything will do.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://what-is-what.com
> 
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to be able to
transferee things to/from the HPC, then SynCE will work fine. You
can also install/remove software. There is also a plugin for
Midnight Commander so that you can access the file system on the
PocketPC.

If you want to Synchronization between the PDA and Kontact
organizer, you may want to take a look at SynCE for KDE.

I have used SynCE with an Itronix T5200 running WindCE 2.11 (HPC
Pro) and it works for me. I normally do a network connection between
them. The serial connection also works, but requires a bit more work
to set up. I have not played with SynCE for KDE, so I am not sure
how well that works. I also do not use the sync connection to access
the Internet, because I already have the network connection. (I
normally have a Compaq wireless card in it.)

I set this up long enough ago that I do not remember all the
details, but I think I had to make a serial connection the first
time, and set up a "trust" relationship. I should also add that this
is running on a system with Mandriva 2005LE and not FC. I still have
to set up the connection to my laptop with FC5 as soon as I get a
USB serial or I/R port for it.

Two drawbacks, at least with the version of WindowsCE I have. You
can only have a "trust" relationship with 2 computers, and a
computer that duel boots Windows and Linux uses up both of them. I
ended up with a connection called THINKPAD and another called
thinkpad. Go figure...

Mikkel
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