On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 23:35 +0100, Philip Aston wrote:
> Thanks. The box I'm using here doesn't have the old packages so it's a
> clean start. I'm staying with Debian (Testing) package handler if I can.
>
> > > We've moved on from the synce-serial stuff. synce-hal handles WM2003
> > > devices very similarly to WM5+ devices; there's no need for all the
> > > synce-serial crap any more, they just work when they're plugged in. With
> > > synce-hal , HAL triggers hal-dccm to load, and it works fine with WM2003
> > > devices.
> > >
> Search on "synce" provided a list and it seemed clear enough what to
> install: synce-hal, synce-multisync-plugin, synce-trayicon,
> opensync-plugin-synce (that included odccm), opensync-plugin-evolution,
> and synce-kpm. I'm assuming that synce-serial is now redundant- but
> would it still be necessary to use synce-matchmaker to control
> partnerships? Not essential in my case, but interesting to know.
Current synce-trayicon SVN can create partnerships with WM2003 devices.
Otherwise, yes, you need synce-matchmaker.
> > Adam is right on the money there, forget everything you knew before :)
> > and install synce-hal. You'll need to remove vdccm or odccm, or at least
> > stop them running.
> >
> removal of odccm as a package requires removal of opensync-plugin-synce
> and sync-sync-engine, so I left them and disabled odccm in /etc/rc. As
> you say, the pda is detected and paired, as indicated on the pda itself;
> and it can be removed and reconnected. So far so good.
> Multisync can't detect the pda. I guess that's an old application- is
Multisync has a 0.2 and 0.3 branch in SVN. The current 0.2 branch does
actually work, if you have the right plugins. But so does kitchensync.
I can't help with the plugins, I don't know anything about the Debian
packages. All I can tell you is that there are two synce <-> opensync
plugins. One comes *with synce* (sync-engine, actually): that one is
good for Windows Mobile 5+ devices (i.e. not yours). The other comes
*with opensync* (from the opensync site, the tarball
libopensync-plugin-synce-0.22.tar.gz ). That one is good for only
Windows Mobile 2003 and earlier devices. So that's the one you want. I
don't know if it's packaged for Debian.
--
adamw
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