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On Saturday 31 December 2005 3:09 pm, Simon Robert wrote: > I am attempting to connect a lifedrive to mandriva 2006. I have kpilot > installed and the palm is recognised when I connect it and the > /dev/pilot node created. Also I can use it in drive mode with no > problem. However when I try hotsync with kpilot it stops at %30 of the > update with a message about being unable to access system information. pilot-link is in the midst of an overhaul for the much delayed 0.12 release. 0.11.8 is two years old. I can't see that Mandriva would have 0.12-pre1 or later, so it must be 0.11.8 Which version of pilot-link are you using? (the kpilot version is completely irrelevant, all the work is done by pilot-link.) Can you connect sensibly using the command line tools? pilot-xfer -l (or pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l if you haven't exported PILOTPORT) > I've tried jpilot too. Gee whizz, some people! You just can't leave the GUI's alone can you! Forget the front-end, get into the gubbins of the thing at the command line!!! :-) > This seems more cryptic and just quits asking me > to kill PIDnnnnn and try again. When I try this the PID doesn't exist > and another try results in the same. And it also removes /dev/pilot. Then don't use the symlink. Find what it's pointing at, find what dmesg says for the connected port(s) and go from there. /dev/pilot is deprecated anyway. > Any pointers would be really helpful as I'd really like to do all this > stuff with linux, rather than dragging my address book etc to windows > and then updating the palm. Which distribution? You could try pilot-link-0.12-pre4 via Debian experimental but this has known problems with USB connections - better to go for current pilot-link-0.12 CVS (which may be released as -pre5 or as 0.12.0). Your addresses can be retrieved using pilot-qof=0.0.6-1 in Debian experimental but there are changes in some other object tables in 0.0.7 so you'd be well advised to follow the advice I gave Henry about using 0.0.7 (which works with pilot-link 0.11.8) from my trivial apt repository: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/archive/2005/12/msg00229.html Then you'll have access to the Calendar, ToDo and Expenses as well as Contacts. What OS is the LifeDrive using? Which version? (Hint: in future, remember to specify all the version details in queries like this!) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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