Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 19:57 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Thu, February 23, 2006 11:12 am, Rick Stevens said:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:51 -0700, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> >> I've recently begun installing Kubuntu (ubuntu.com) at work on a few
> >> workstations. Interesting to find that a USB Palm Pilot syncs right out of
> >> the box. On Fedora Core 4, I've never had good success syncing. It works
> >> very sporadically at best. Why?
> >
> > How are you syncing?  USB?  Bluetooth?  I've never had a problem.
> 
> USB only. That's the only way a Tungsten T5 comes. Overall, Ubuntu handles
> USB devices better. The USB port doesn't come and go with the connect. It's
> a MAKEDEV type device all the time. I get permission problems and had to
> write a script that sets the owner every few seconds. That didn't work more
> than once in about 15-25 tries. I changed to a hardware update so when a USB
> device is attached, the permissions are changed to my user and that doesn't
> work more than once every 5-10 times. I ran the script with that and didn't
> see any improvement.

Well, shoot.  I sync my ancient Handspring Visor on FC4 via USB all the
time, and I sync my E2 via either USB or bluetooth (bluetooth mostly) as
well.

The USB sync (at least as far as pilot-link is concerned) is always on
/dev/ttyUSB1.  Bluetooth is a bit more involved.

> This has been a while and I gave up, syncing to Win2000 (VMWare guest) only.
> I'm actually thinking of installing Ubuntu on VMWare and seeing how that
> works.

I can send you what I have for FC4, if it'll help.

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