Palm with SuSE 9.2 Pro

[Alma J Wetzker]

My wife has a palm (tungsten E), and she wants to sync it with the 
computer.  Her Win98 laptop does not have USB ports, so that means I 
need to get this thing working under linux.

I loaded the pilot software (jpilot, kpilot, evolution palm support) and 
the system recognizes that there is a palm connected to the USB connector.

dmesg says that I have a palm connected to the USB port attached as 
ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1.  I have adjusted the permissions on these devices 
in the /dev directory (as well as /dev/pilot) to have world rw.

JPilot says it is trying to sync on; /dev/pilot, /dev/ttyUSB0, 
/dev/ttyUSB1, /dev/usb/ttyUSB0, and /dev/usb/ttyUSB1.  I get the error:

pi_bind illegal seek
Check your serial port and settings
Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND
Finished.

Summary, the computer recognizes that there is a palm connected to the 
USB port.  dmesg tells me what device to attach to (if I am reading it 
correctly.)  The palm will not sync with the computer.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what to try next?  Anyone with a 
palm working with linux?

     -- Alma