Here's an update on my palm pilot woes, hopefully to prevent others from
being mislead by my post yesterday.
I have indeed had problems getting syncing to work using jpilot. However, my
tale of woe continued for some time last night. When I first started playing
with this last night, I could not get jpilot to sync, but kpilot did -
however, as I noted, it has bugs in it that made it unusable (kpilot) after
getting all the data uploaded from my palm IIIxe.
Later on last night, I tried to transfer some data to the palm (I had typed a
few todos in vi, and wanted to load them in) but could not get the connection
to work with pilot-link, which has never glitched on me before.
To make a long story short, I tried everything up to and including a hard
reset of the palm (fortuantely I had used pilot-link to back up all of my
databases earlier in the evening) without success. I tried connecting to the
palm via Windows booted onto my Linux box (I guess now I am glad I never
deleted that old windows partition) and then from a second computer that runs
Win98 - no go.
According to palm tech support, my cradle is the most likely culprit, and
they are sending me a replacement, which I won't have for 6-8 days. Until
then, of course, my palm is unusable as it is now tabula rasa after the hard
reset. Sigh. Hopefully when the new cradle arrives it will work. I am less
than convinced by the tech support person's claim that in these situations it
is always the cradle that is broken and not the palm itself. Rather, I
suspect they just replace the cradle first because that's the cheapest
approach.
Once I am (hopefully) reconnected, I will retry jpilot and post my
success/failure as a followup.
Neal
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Subject: Re: [expert] Palm Pilot
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:23:31 +0200
From: Kang-Ling Weng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Robert Goshko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: MandrakeExpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Am Dienstag 24 April 2001 03:07 schrieb Robert Goshko:
> > On 23 Apr 2001 19:45:19 -0400, Neal Lippman wrote:
> > What are people using to sync/work with a palm pilot from Linux?
> >
> > Thus far, I have been very disappointed with the available software:
> > JPilot cannot seem to sync; it hangs part way through and then
> > fails. KPilot can sync, but the program is so buggy as to be unusable.
> > For instance, if I look at my 500-odd addresses from the address book,
> > and then select a particular category, the entire display is incorrect.
> > I cannot get gnome-pilot to run at all.
> >
> > The pilot-link package works just fine and seems reliable, but of course
> > lacks a gui package to work with.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> That is strange that J-Pilot gives you problems, but pilot-link works?
> What version of J-Pilot are you using, I have 0.99 running, with a USB
> Visor, but it syncs no problem, even the initial load with over a years
> worth of history in my calender went smooth.
>
> Haven't used gnome-pilot yet, but I do remember KPilot being a little
> flaky when I tried it with my Old Palm Pilot a year or so ago.
I got the same prob like neal lippman ..
pilot link works fine
j-pilot wont sync ..
my j-pilot version ist 0.98 .. today I will check you the version 0.99
My Palm:
Palm IIIxe using cradle
Kang-Ling
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