Palm with SuSE 9.2 Pro

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 10:05 pm, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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:

Alma:

I was able to get a Palm to sync using Kpilot....  you might try that to at 
least see if things will work.

Here are some old emails on the subject (which may have nothing to do with the 
problem):

On Thursday 15 July 2004 8:08 pm, Brooks wrote:
> I just bought one for my wife and wanted to see if it would sync with our
> 9.1 system at home. ?I'm thinking I might get one for myself as well. ?I
> can't get it to work, however. ?The Palm pilot sees the computer but cannot
> hotsync. ?I've got the conduits that I want (I think) configured and the
> user id entered. ?However, I don't know what the other settings should be. 
> I've looked at the SuSE help files, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do
> everything it talks about. ?BTW I can't get it to work with Evolution
> either.
>
> If someone has some idiot proof directions, I would sure appreciate the
> help (I need it!).

? I have a Visor I sync USB and what worked for me was to fire up 
KPilot, go to Settings -> Configure KPilot and fix the device to point 
to the correct USB port. First time thru it took a bit of trial and 
error to get the right port (I wasn't sure which one it was 
plugged into and I have 6 USB ports, so I kept trying until
it worked).
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Eric,
>From my notes in doing research on this for a customer. ?Oh, I found all 
this in the searchable SuSE mail list archives, if you want to do 
further research. ?It seems that kpilot sets up initially to use 
device /dev/pilot and you can check kpilot's settings for that I 
believe as I don't have a Palm, so can't verify.

In the mails I read, it was suggested that you either point your kpilot 
to /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1 or just make the /dev/kpilot a symlink 
to one of those. ?Either of those seem to work for everyone that had 
the same question.