Sync My Palm Z22 With Jpilo

I've been googling around trying to figure out how to use JPilot to sync my palm. My other os (vista) isn't supported (how stupid is that???) - so I'm thinking "SuSE" - has anyone been able to do this? I installed JPilot and a couple others from YaST repos and get as far as telling the software to sync - it replies "hit the hot sync button your palm now" and I do that but after a long time, the palm says the connection could not be established..." It's just a USB connection so there shouldn't be driver problems... Any experience would be appreciated!

Thanks!!
Patti

Edit: I found that a character device appears in /dev/bus/usb/001 whenever I connect my z22 to a USB port. It can't be mounted being a character device. I tried pilot-xfer as well as JPilot and they all seem to talk about a "port" named /dev/pilot. Is this something I have to create myself, analogously to mount-ing a block device to an existing directory? (I tried entering /dev/bus/usb/001/XXX as the port - but that doesn't seem to work.)

EDIT2: YAY! I found that KPilot autodetects the port - /dev/ttyUSB1 It seems to be backing up and syncing well with KDE-PIM...
Wow - do my eyes deceive me? :huh: :blink: It even seemed to update the latest news headlines (to my palm) from the internet! :blink:

Excellent, glad you got it working. was gonna mention Kpilot as i've heard a lot of good things about it & palm devices

andy

The same /dev/ttyUSB1/ has always worked for me with Evolution, as well, using my Sony PDA, until this last release of SUSE 10.2. Now, when I attempt to sync, instead of the data appearing on the PDA or in Evolution, whichever way I attempt to sync, all I get are some gray bars. I don't know what went wrong this time, but it worked great before. If you use Evolution email, you might give that a try, as well.

Cheers,
zenarcher

The same /dev/ttyUSB1/ has always worked for me with Evolution, as well, using my Sony PDA, until this last release of SUSE 10.2. Now, when I attempt to sync, instead of the data appearing on the PDA or in Evolution, whichever way I attempt to sync, all I get are some gray bars. I don't know what went wrong this time, but it worked great before. If you use Evolution email, you might give that a try, as well.
Cheers,
zenarcher
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Thanks - my little z22 only carries an address book and appointments - no email sync, etc. I just wanted to be able to back it up. Someone turned right in front of me on my scooter (luckily I wear real motorcycle armor when I ride my little scooter) alas - though safely nestled in my purse, my palm was history. Luckily I had it backed up! Now if I could just backup (and fix the OS on) my Verizon/Motorola Razr V3m - I hear the non-Verizon-dumbed-down product is pretty good.

Well, now something REALLY weird happened! I had only sync'd my z22 once, and when I looked at it this AM everything was there EXCEPT all my appointments! So something went bollics up during that sync... I looked in KPilot and there isn't any appointment stuff in there (the addresses are there) - so it's gone - poof. Did I set something up wrong? Is this a known problem with KPilot? Dare I try again? :unsure:

That's exactly what I use my PDA for....to back up addresses and appointment stuff I have in Evolution email. Sadly, with whatever occurred with SUSE 10.2 and Evolution, it no longer works. It did work fine in previous versions. Now, after sync, all I have are gray bars where the information should be. If I try to sync from Evolution back to the Sony PDA, all I find is garbled characters. It does work fine with KPilot, however.

Smart move with the real motorcycle armor in Los Angeles. I rode a motorcycle there for many years and always wore the armor. I still ride the motorcycle, but in a far less crowded area.

Cheers,
zenarcher