Re: [LUG] Palm Lifedrive & Linux

[Simon Robert <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:

> 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!)
>
>  
thanks, I will get version 12 pre4. The mandriva version is an 11. 
something. The version of the palm OS is 2.0. But re the other mail I am 
currently struggling to get anything to work. The "5 minute" ROM reading 
process is currently up to 20 minutes.

Thanks again.

Simon

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