Dapper-Evolution-Palm-Sync__Broken?

[Roger Haxton]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 04:01, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:48:42AM -0500, BBBB wrote:
> > I have recorded all my settings from Breezy where is still works fine.
> > (Dapper was
> > a clean install). I have tried KPilot, JPilot also no joy. I eventually
> > found a post from
> > last month suggesting that the Palm sync is broken. Is this the case?
> >   Has anyone gotten a Palm handheld to snyc with Evolution under Dapper?
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> I had the same experience when I moved to Dapper. If you are trying to
> use a usb-connection to sync the following might help.
>
> I have put this in a script named ~/bin/pda-devices:
> #~/bin/sh
> sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 0
> sudo mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
> sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB?
>
> and then configured my jpilot to use /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> The problem is that these devices dissappear usually after a connection
> has been terminated.  So now I first run ~/bin/pda-devices and then
> jpilot and then sync it.
>
> There must be a better solution out there involving udev I suppose.  But
> I don't have enough knowledge about udev to find it.

Try loading the coldplug package.  That was what I finally had to do to get my 
Treo 650 to work with Dapper.  Of course I sync with Kmail.  Haven't tried 
with Evolution.  
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~R~
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