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Have you read README.usb yet? It should get you started. I also have a bunch of HOWTO documents I've written that may also help you get things working.

Are you running 0.11.7 of pilot-link (which is required for USB to work with any of the other apps, KPilot, J-Pilot, gnome-pilot, etc.) I'll be releasing 0.11.8 shortly.

Is your kernel recent enough to support it? Use 2.4.20 or later, but not 2.5, if you want the most stable. Previous kernels had issues with the visor driver crashing, which have been resolved in 2.4.20 and later kernel versions.

Considered a donation to the project?

Good luck.

I'd love to buy one of these but I need something that works with a genuinely cross platform email/address/calendar client. Evolution is great, Outlook is easy but none of these are on every platform I use. Without that, it's of no use to me.

In any case, you can sync to Mozilla, assuming your export your data to a format suitable for import into Mozilla. The OeOne group are doing just that with their products, and I can do the same thing here with LDIF and other formats.

Ah, nice to know. Note that I said 'probably'. And you do have to pay for it, which makes the Mac a second-class platform to use a Sony Clie with.

For those on OS X, find the required software here:
Missing Sync

and Linux:
Pilot Link

Since this clie comes only with the usb cradle I'm curious how well it'll work with linux. Has anybody experimented the the usb support in pilot-link. Is it stable? What about getting mp3s on? Does anybody out there know?

Sony, where is the POSE source code for the "PEG-T600C/T400/T415" series version of POSE? You have two new models of Clie devices on the horizon, and I'm sure that developers would like to begin supporting them, further increasing your sales margins. You have a Windows binary of POSE available that supports these models, you are legally bound to provide the source code which generated these binaries.

Here's a quote from your PalmOS® developer page:

The source code will be available with the final version.

Sony, listen closely.. you really need to make yourself aware of the GPL before you blindly violate it like this. If you come back with the excuse that you are "cleaning up the code", you are still in violation. "Cleaned up" code will produce a different binary. You are bound, by the GPL, with releasing the source code which generates any binary you create and distribute from that source code, Windows, Unix, or Macintosh.

I will be in attendance at Palmsource in a few weeks, and I hope you will be as well, because I intend to fully bring this to the attention of yourself, and everyone else there. I have been quiet about this issue, but believe me, I am not backing down.

I have reluctantly added support to pilot-link for the Sony devices, most of which are randomly designed in nature, so that you can see increased sales due to the non-Windows users purchasing your hardware. How about giving back to the community that has been supporting your bottom line for the last two years, instead of raping and stealing from it?

I see only one way that you can claim that you are allowed to proceed with this violation, and that would be if the original copyright holder of xcopilot relicensed or sold the copyright to that code to Palm and then they in turn relicensed it to you. I do not see that being the case, since all previous versions of POSE that you have made available have been based on publically available GPL versions of the codebase. From your own site:

This is the same software level as Palm OS® Emulator 3.0a8 (PEG-S and PEG-N Series) and Palm OS® Emulator 3.2 (PEG-T415), distributed by Palm,Inc.

I anxiously await your public response to this matter.

I've got a sony clie and I use Linux 100%. JPilot works perfectly with Palms (including Sony). The USB interface doesn't work, but there are two other options:

USB (though it's still using a serial protocol across that USB interface) works perfectly well under Linux with pilot-link and Coldsync. Join us on Efnet on #pilot-link for help if you need it. I'm releasing a new version of pilot-link which does protocol auto-detection, so Handspring (old "USB" protocol) and Sony devices (new "USB"/net protocol) is detected and used properly. People have had no issues. Works with JPilot (with a slight update) and Evolution (AC_PILOT_LINK) and other apps.

I am happy to report that I DO CURRENTLY sync my palm IIIxe with the Kab (KDE address book) using kpilot provided with KDE since version 2 i believe. It is very functionaland adaptable. The documentation even caters to those wishing to create thier own conduits and interfaces.

I also use pilot-link for very convenient command line interaction with my palm.

I could be biased, but i these linux tools for palm transfers much more powerful than their windows counterparts!

I asked the same thing of the Yopy and and Agenda people, with exactly the same response... none.

Their loss, not mine.

It's not that these tools don't exist, it's that the vendors don't see the target market clearly enough to want to use them.