Mobile phone/PDA combo that will sync with Ubuntu.

[Daryn Hanright]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:30:21PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
>  --- nocturn <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> skrev: 
> I just got inspired by this little sidebar discussion.
> I can't transfer contacts or anything from my P800 to
> Ubuntu Warty at this point (no Windows boot and the
> Lin alternatives mean basically you have to be a guru
> and jump through hoops), so I beamed all of my
> contacts from the P800 over to my Handspring Visor. I
> tried to get started with gnome pilot, but the Visor
> didn't register when I pressed the HotSync button on
> the USB cradle. I am pretty sure that the cradle is at
> ttyUSB0, but maybe I need to do something with the
> vendor and deviceID as well? What do I do and where to
> get the HotSync working?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 

Isn't the Handspring Visor a serial device? In which case the device name will
be /dev/ttyS0 or something (or /dev/pilot if a symbolic link has been set up).

cheers
Daryn

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