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Palm sync with Kontact - out of the box on Suse 10?

Janus

4 Mar 2006 4 Mar '06

00:12

I never managed to sync my Palm with Kontact. My last attempt was with SuSE 9.1. Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10? I have a Palm Tungsten E. Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

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Charles Philip Chan

4 Mar 4 Mar

01:59

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On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 01:12:06 +0100 Janus wrote:

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Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

Have you configured kpilot? What happens when you try to sync? Charles -- I've run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few months. I just love debugging ;-) (Linus Torvalds)

Michael W Cocke

12:07

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On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 01:12:06 +0100, you wrote:

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I never managed to sync my Palm with Kontact. My last attempt was with SuSE 9.1.

Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

I have a Palm Tungsten E.

I have a Tungston C, and while I was able to eventually sync it with kontact, it was a pain and IMHO not worth it. The pain part is locating the correct USB /dev/ttyUSBx port! Please read this carefully - it makes no sense (mainly because I can't write coherently), but it's dead accurate; The port does not exist until after you have pressed the sync button on the cradle and before the timeout message shows up. You can try to sync on every USB port, but until that condition is met, you'll get error messages indicating that you're on the wrong port. Open the config panel to set the correct USB port, set it for ttyUSB0, hit sync. if/when it doesn't connect, cancel the sync on the palm, change the panel to ttyUSB1, and repeat. Please note that if there's a correlation between the physical USB port and the dev I've never found a clue, and believe I have looked. After you finally get sync to work, you'll make the unpleasant discovery that unless you use a very vanilla palm, you might as well have not bothered. To make a long story short, the palm desktop and all custom conduits can be made to work under windows running inside VMware 5 and above (you'll have to remove the visor module from your kernel), but not via wine - wine doesn't do USB ports. Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

Roger Haxton

15:16

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On Friday March 3 2006 18:12, Janus wrote:

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I never managed to sync my Palm with Kontact. My last attempt was with SuSE 9.1.

Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

I have a Palm Tungsten E.

Janus

-- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

I have a Palm Treo 650 phone. I just reinstalled SuSE 10 on my laptop. In SuSE 9.3 I could never make the sync work. In 10, I followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/packages/pilot-link/README.usb. According to the README, most devices use /dev/ttyUSB1, but there are a few that use /dev/ttyUSB0. Using those instructions, I was able to make this work with kpilot, gpilot, and jpilot. HTH, -- ~R~ ---------------------------------------------------------- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

kevin.kempter＠dataintellect.com

15:58

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On Saturday 04 March 2006 08:16, Roger Haxton wrote:

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On Friday March 3 2006 18:12, Janus wrote:

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I never managed to sync my Palm with Kontact. My last attempt was with SuSE 9.1.

Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

I have a Palm Tungsten E.

Janus

-- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

I have a Palm Treo 650 phone. I just reinstalled SuSE 10 on my laptop. In SuSE 9.3 I could never make the sync work. In 10, I followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/packages/pilot-link/README.usb. According to the README, most devices use /dev/ttyUSB1, but there are a few that use /dev/ttyUSB0. Using those instructions, I was able to make this work with kpilot, gpilot, and jpilot.

HTH, -- ~R~ ---------------------------------------------------------- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

This worked for me: Create a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules with this content: BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="pilot" the above entry was all I needed on SUSE 10 to syng my treo 600. However, If it doesn't work you can also try adding a file called /etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions with this content: ttyUSB1:$local:uucp:0660 For more info, look at this site: http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096

Janus

21:39

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Roger Haxton wrote:

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According to the README, most devices use /dev/ttyUSB1, but there are a few that use /dev/ttyUSB0. Using those instructions, I was able to make this work with kpilot, gpilot, and jpilot.

What about sync to the components in Kontact (KOrganizer, KAddressbook etc.)? Janus

Steve Graegert

21:46

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On 3/4/06, Janus wrote:

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Roger Haxton wrote:

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According to the README, most devices use /dev/ttyUSB1, but there are a few that use /dev/ttyUSB0. Using those instructions, I was able to make this work with kpilot, gpilot, and jpilot.

What about sync to the components in Kontact (KOrganizer, KAddressbook etc.)?

This is what kpilot does. It syncs with the standard KDE tools. \Steve

Roger Haxton

21:49

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On Saturday March 4 2006 15:39, Janus wrote:

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Roger Haxton wrote:

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According to the README, most devices use /dev/ttyUSB1, but there are a few that use /dev/ttyUSB0. Using those instructions, I was able to make this work with kpilot, gpilot, and jpilot.

What about sync to the components in Kontact (KOrganizer, KAddressbook etc.)?

Janus Yes, I sync my Treo to kontact with kpilot. That was my main goal. I have also sync'd my Treo to Evolution with gpilot just to test. And sync'd and made a backup of my Treo with jpilot. There is usually a slight delay between when I press the hotsync button on either my cradle or on my Treo before /dev/ttyUSB1 becomes available and it begins the sync. -- ~R~

Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you, "There's a time for work and a time for play," never find the time for play?

Janus

11 Jun 11 Jun

01:37

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On Saturday 04 March 2006 01:12, Janus wrote:

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Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

Got SuSE 10.0 and finally found time to try it out. I worked out of the box. No problems. Now I have all my 2dos, contacts and calender entries available in Contact. Goodbye Palm Desktop! Hello integration between Palm and KDE (with drag & drop between the Kontact modules). God job, Kpilot and Kontact developers! :-) -j -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

John Pettigrew

07:17

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In a previous message, Janus wrote:

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On Saturday 04 March 2006 01:12, Janus wrote:

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Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

Got SuSE 10.0 and finally found time to try it out. I worked out of the box. No problems.

I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange. John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/

Janus

15:24

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 09:17, John Pettigrew wrote:

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I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange.

Thay happened to me first time I syncronized. I think it was because I stopped the Palm while sync'ing, and then changed the name for the .ics file which holds the Korganizer data. By this I ended up with double entries on both Korganizer and the Palm. I solved the problem by syncronizing with Palm Desktop on Windows, asked it to remove dubled entries and then did a overwrite of the data on the Palm. Then I deleted the Korganizer data file, created a new one and did a sync. Voila! Now I hope it will stay that way:-) -j -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

John Pettigrew

17:02

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In a previous message, Janus wrote:

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 09:17, John Pettigrew wrote:

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I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange.

Thay happened to me first time I syncronized. I think it was because I stopped the Palm while sync'ing, and then changed the name for the .ics file which holds the Korganizer data. By this I ended up with double entries on both Korganizer and the Palm.

Not the same problem, then - it was only KOrganizer that got doubled for me! I'd recommend JPilot. I never had this problem when I used that. John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/

kai

16:08

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 12:17 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

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In a previous message, Janus wrote:

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On Saturday 04 March 2006 01:12, Janus wrote:

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Has anyone succeeded in synchronising their Palm (contacts, calender and to-dos) with the relevant applications in Kontact? Is it "out of the box" with SuSE 10?

Got SuSE 10.0 and finally found time to try it out. I worked out of the box. No problems.

I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange.

John

Which Palm Pilot are you using? I have a Zire 72, which I've only been able to sync once with SUSE. -- k -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

John Pettigrew

17:01

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In a previous message, kai wrote:

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 12:17 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

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I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange.

Which Palm Pilot are you using? I have a Zire 72, which I've only been able to sync once with SUSE.

Tungsten T John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/

kai

16 Jun 16 Jun

02:45

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 10:01 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

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In a previous message, kai wrote:

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 12:17 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

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I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange.

Which Palm Pilot are you using? I have a Zire 72, which I've only been able to sync once with SUSE.

Tungsten T

Thanks. I remember my Tungsten E working. Of course, the stupid thing died at 13 months, right out of warranty. I ended up with the Zire 72, which has worked great for me, except for a complete lack of consistancy with synching in Linux. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com 43 - for those who require slightly more than life, the universe and everything -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

Robert Cunningham

04:18

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kai wrote:

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 10:01 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

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In a previous message, kai wrote:

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On Sunday 11 June 2006 12:17 am, John Pettigrew wrote:

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I also found it easy to use and effective (it "just worked") - but with one (rather annoying) flaw. All my Datebook entries were doubled; that is, each appointment appeared twice in Kontact! This didn't seem to affect the Palm at all, but was rather strange.

Which Palm Pilot are you using? I have a Zire 72, which I've only been able to sync once with SUSE.

Tungsten T

Thanks. I remember my Tungsten E working. Of course, the stupid thing died at 13 months, right out of warranty. I ended up with the Zire 72, which has worked great for me, except for a complete lack of consistancy with synching in Linux.

My Zire 71 Syncs up great with only the occasional double posting of address, but I think this is more of a problem because I sync to two different machines, one at home and one at work Bob C -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

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