Linux Support on USB Palm Pilots?

seachnasaigh asks: "I love desktop Linux, but the one stumbling block I have with deploying it in some capacity for my userbase is USB Palm Pilots. Once upon a time I managed to get GPilot working with a serial PalmVx, but despite repeated attempts (SuSE 9.2 pro, Fedora Core 3 and several Palm devices) I can't get a synch to happen with the USB version, either through the native Gnome Pilot app or through Evolution (and yes, Kpilot too!). Our standard deployment is a Palm Tungsten T series; most of our desktops are recent Dells. It's embarrassing to have to boot into Windows to synch the Palms. Does anyone have some suggestions out there?"

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Hit sync first

[Col. Klink (retired)]

First of all, why aren't you posting this to the pilot-unix mailing list?

Anyways... the only real trick is that you have to start the hotsync on the pilot before you start the hotsync on the desktop (the desktop won't see the USB device until the hotsync has started).

Devices:
/dev/pilot: symbolic link to ttyUSB1
/dev/ttyUSB1: character special (188/1)

Modules required:
visor (CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m)
usbserial (CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m)

Bah!

[toolz]

This is terrible. How did this even make it past the /. editors/censors?

My friend, I have one word for you - "google".

Support for PalmOS based units is ROCK SOLID on Linux, especially the USB based units. And it has been for years. I am a PalmPilot user from the 1990s, and while I admit that there were issues in the first few years, today they simply dont exist, not with stuff like Jpilot around. The guys who run the Pilot Link project have been doing fantastic work over the years making sure that things work, and there must be a zillion Linux users out there who benefit daily from their work.

A totally elementary Google search would have brought up EVERYTHING you would need to get things going.

On a tangent - why was this post allowed through in first place? It now sits on the front page of Slashdot, and gives all those guys who never RTFA or read comments more misguidance, leaving them with the impression that what is written in that post is actually true.

And it will poison search engines for a long time, so that anyone who ACTUALLY does a google search before posting gets this post thrown up before any real information.

BAH!