Well, point taken. As I recall, I did have pilot-link before I upgraded lindows, which had to be done so the visor and other modules would work with the PDA. My original problem was my kernel was a tiny bit premature to talk properly to the palm over usb. Not that the kernel said so, it just was so.
Since pilot-link is essential, you would think that jpilot or kpilot, both of which I tried, would have detected the lack of this item and complained about it. The documentation may point this out. It is a shame their software doesn't when it runs. I guess somebody saved themselves some time when they coded jpilot. If they were a profit making company, they would not have shrugged and said let them read the documentation. I have had enuf of trying to make this thing work. I think I am just getting to the end of my rope with some of this nonsense. There comes a time when you have to ask yourself, why I am having to do so much work to get something very simple to work? The answer in this case is linux. Joel Jul 12, 2003 at 07:47:33PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > On 07/12/03 18:36, Joel Hammer wrote: > > I don't have pilot-link. Do I need it? > > I know nothing about palm pilots. I've never owned one, and never used > one. I spent 3 minutes Googling and found numerous references to the > requirement that pilot-link be installed & functional before you can access > a palm pilot in Linux. Of course about 1 of those three minutes was trying > to figure out what the heck a 'Zaire' was, until i realized that you meant > Zire. For your edification: > http://snovae.in2p3.fr/ycopin/soft/zire.html > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/62164 > http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/hardware.html > > and last, but certainly not least, the official jpilot documentation where > pilot-link is explicitly specified as a prerequisite: > http://www.henrikbecker.mynetcologne.de/jpilot/jpilot-manual-en-2.html#ss2.1 > > > I downloaded Ximian Evolution. It won't work with the palm because I > > need some gnome tools. > > > > Grrr.... > > > > Oh well, I will just have to not use my palm for a few months/years > > longer. I am getting fond of pcal. I will not bother with this problem > > anymore. I have at least 30 hours of my time invested, all wasted. > > Perhaps it wouldn't have been had you spent a few minutes reading the > documentation. > > > I'll skip my usual rant. Not worth it. But, its worth noting in passing > > that linux developers wrote devfs without getting any input from > > me. I would have told them to make all handhelds plug and play with > > linux before they fix something that wasn't broken. That is, if they > > are serious about getting linux on the desktop, which apparently they > > are not. I would never recommend linux to the average user because of > > shortcomings like this. This is a show stopper. > > No. Not reading documentation is the show stopper. PEBCAK. > > > It is hard not to get the impression that linux is a place where > > adolescents like to play. For example, going though the warehouse at > > Lindows, I noted that there were pages of mp3 players and cd rippers. But, > > there are only two office suites. One staroffice, which came out of a > > commercial background and was a free gift (charity) to the opensource > > movement and is a serious package. The other is koffice, the opensource > > answer to MS. I have never found Koffice useful. Don't linux advocates > > get worried ? > > Only about FUD mongers. Some people deserve windoze. > > > Bill Gates must sleep well at night. > > i'm sure he does. > > > > > Joel > > > > P.S. This wasn't the rant. I erased that. > > you sure fooled me. > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 7:00pm up 7 days, 3:59, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.09 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
