Zaire still won't connect

[Joel Hammer]

Well, turns out I have pilot-link installed. Hard to know if it is working,
since the pilot-link site didn't have any documentation for using their fine
product on prominent display. Couldn't find anything in the jpilot page
about integrating jpilot and pilot-link.  I did manage to get pilot-xfer
to talk to my PDA. What they said, I don't know. But getting anything
useful out of this is looking mighty iffy.

The reason why I am so angry about devfs is because this may be why
things are not  working with jpilot. But how can I tell? The dev is not
created until you hit the sync button on the PDA. This seems to be the
plan. Then, you hit the sync button on jpilot and it says hit the sync
button on the PDA. Who knows where pilot-link is in all of this nonsense.

I see on the jpilot page the author needs work. The pilot-link web page
sounds like it is maintained by teenagers.

What business would rely on this type of system? PDA connectivity
with windows comes FREE and easy when you buy a PDA.

Grr....

Joel


On Sat, 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.
> 
> 
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