sync palm treo 680 via kpilot ?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Feb 26 19:19:56 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 12:08 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:01:25 Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 09:05 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > > Hi all;
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me to docs per setting up hotsync via kpilot in KDE 4.2
> > > ?
> > >
> > > I'm running Fedora 10 x86_64
> > >
> > > Kpilot does not see the usb device, the device /dev/polit does not get
> > > created however a dmesg shows the device as recognized:
> > >
> > > usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11
> > > usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > > usb 6-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0830, idProduct=0061
> > > usb 6-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
> > > usb 6-2: Product: Palm Handheld
> > > usb 6-2: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc.
> > > usb 6-2: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance...
> >
> > ----
> > try changing settings in kpilot to use 'usb:' instead of '/dev/pilot'
> >
> > Craig
> 
> This worked once. I didnt have any conduits enabled other than the installer. 
> Now I always get this in the kpilot screen:
> 
> 12:05:44 Starting the KPilot daemon ...
> 12:05:44 Daemon started.
> 12:05:44 Daemon status is `not running'
> 12:05:44 Next HotSync will be: HotSync. Please press the HotSync button.
> 12:05:49 Trying to open device usb:...
> 12:06:09 Unable to read system information from Pilot
> 12:06:09 Could not open device: usb: (will retry)
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I find it sometimes useful to disconnect and reconnect the device
between sync attempts.

Craig




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