Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Fri, February 24, 2006 12:01 pm, Rick Stevens said:
> 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 did that. It works out-of-the-box, as-advertised...

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

That would be helpful. Thanks,

Karl

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