Mark Goldstein wrote:

On 12/31/06, Marcel Ruff wrote:

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Hi,

with OpenSuse 10.1 i had nice access to my PDA (running Windows CE 4.1).

I could copy files and get the PDA desktop to my X11 desktop (similar to vnc).

I've used the tools synce, rapi and kcemirror to do this.

Now after upgrading to OpenSuse 10.2 all those tools have disappeared, i can't access the PDA anymore.

What happened to those tools? Are there some better tools bundled to 10.2?

I'm having the same problem. It looks like those tools were abandoned for OpenSync. Though OpenSync has plugin for synce protocol, that, if I understood correctly, still requires synce.

I've found out synce and synce-kde rpms for 10.2 in ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/sl10.2-i386/suse/RPMS.release Synce works OK (that is, I can manually connect to my PDA and browse it with konqueror as rapip:/). But for some reason synce-kde does not really work (raki crashes on me). I'm now trying to re-compile from sources.

As a first try, i have compiled the complete subversion synce sources from today for my other PDA (running Windows Mobile CE 5.1) using the description from: http://www.synce.org/index.php/Building_SynCE_with_Windows_Mobile_2005_suppo... The initial USB connect seems to work now after some troubles(it is a HP IPAQ 6910), but then i get this error: ======================== noty:~ # odccm ** ERROR **: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused aborting... Aborted ======================== Has anybody a clue what the setup of dbus on OpenSUSE is? What can i do? Further i tried to compile kcemirror locally, but this failed with ======================== /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lkdeprint ======================== and kdeprint is not on the OpenSUSE DVD... oi oi oi ... an endless story. OpenSUSE is definitely not for normal home users when using PDAs ... (and when using multi media ... just to have said it ;-) thanks Marcel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 12/31/06, Mark Goldstein wrote:

On 12/31/06, Marcel Ruff wrote:

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http://www.synce.org/index.php/Building_SynCE_with_Windows_Mobile_2005_suppo...

The initial USB connect seems to work now after some troubles(it is a HP IPAQ 6910), but then i get this error:

======================== noty:~ # odccm ** ERROR **: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused

I can say that after I found out how to configure all components (orange, unshield, dynamite and synce-kde) to go to the right directories, rapi works OK to me (well, there is no kcemirror for some reason, but I did not use it anyway). -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 1/2/07, Marcel Ruff wrote:

When i now start odccm it returns silently, can i assume that it started properly?

I guess so.

Now i don't know what to do next...

The IPAQ is, according to /var/log/messages', connected.

Did you configure synce serial connection and started it? I have my iPaq on ttyUSB0, so I used synce-serial-config to set it up and then I'm calling synce-serial-start to actually connect to PDA.

I have found a synce-kde-pack-0.9.1-6.src.rpm on my system (probably from the old OpenSuse 10.1?), it is installed and contains thinks like rapip etc.

Where did you get your 'synce-kde' from?

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/sl10.2-i386/suse/RPMS.release I can't say right now what version it is (have to check it at home). -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 1/2/07, Marcel Ruff wrote:

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Did you configure synce serial connection and started it?

I have my iPaq on ttyUSB0, so I used synce-serial-config to set it up and then I'm calling synce-serial-start to actually connect to PDA. Ahh, yes these are lost in suse 10.2 as well, i can't find them anywhere. Do you remember where you got synce-serial-config from?

This is part of synce package. I'm sorry, actually I used synce rpm from that ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/sl10.2-i386/suse/RPMS.release I tried synce-kde from this site, but raki crashed. So I compiled the package from source taken from sourceforge.net, as you wrote. I also used orange, unshield and dynamite from sourceforge. Maybe it was possible to do it other way, but I've only managed to compile synce-kde after I configured and installed all these 3 packets with option --prefix=/usr and then configured synce-kde with options --with-libdynamite=/usr --with-libunshield=/usr... and so on (not sure the syntax is exactly like that). In this case synce-kde components were placed into correct directories so KDE could find them. Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 1/3/07, Marcel Ruff wrote:

But my konqueror usage fails with: An error occurred while loading rapip:/: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_rapip'.

No, I have not seen this one.

and my kcemirror does not compile (because of missing kprint).

And this one I did saw. The funny thing is that libkprint is there where it should be. I'll try to figure out what happens.

If you are interested about the outcome i can send feedback to this thread as well.

Yes, please do. I'll also write if I'll find something new. Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 1/4/07, Marcel Ruff wrote:

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But my konqueror usage fails with: An error occurred while loading rapip:/: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_rapip'.

No, I have not seen this one. That means you can successfully access the PDA filesystem with your konqueror using rapip:// notation?

Yes, both rapip:/ or rapip://pocket_pc2 work for me.

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and my kcemirror does not compile (because of missing kprint).

And this one I did saw. The funny thing is that libkprint is there where it should be. I'll try to figure out what happens. Ok, this was resolved easily:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/kde3/lib make make install -----> /opt/kde3/bin/kcemirror

but i couldn't yet get the screen to my X11 desktop. On my old WinCE 4.1 PDA i always started 'Programs->ActiveSync->Remote and added my Linux PC IP and i got the display to X11, but on my WinCE 5 there is no such menue ...

I did it by adding -L/opt/kde3/kcemirror to the command from make file. Also no luck. What happens when you start kcemirror? In my case (I tried it from command line), it looks like that: kcemirror pocket_pc2 Synce: true ForceInstall: false [CeGetSystemInfo:105] last_error = 0 [CeCreateProcess:37] last_error = 2 [CeCreateProcess:39] result = 0 kcemirror: Could not contact PDA pocket_pc2 -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 1/5/07, Marcel Ruff wrote:

Only the kcemirror functionality is now missing. For the time being i'll use the vncserver (pocketVNC.exe), not as fast and elegant as kcemirror but i can control the desktop from my Linux X11.

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What happens when you start kcemirror? In my case (I tried it from command line), it looks like that: marcel@noty:~> kcemirror 192.168.1.29 Synce: true ForceInstall: false kcemirror: Could not contact PDA 192.168.1.29

I have started screensnap.exe on the IPAQ but this didn't help, see http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/kde/old/kcemirror.php

Hi Marcel, I eventually managed to run kcemirror. Probably, the most important part was to use the switch --forceinstall. But before I understood it, I did something else. I removed synce-kde with all libraries and returned to synce-kde-pack from sourceforge. I could not install it because of seemingly failed dependencies. I checked the rpm again and found out that most libraries the rpm complains about are there in RPM itself. So I installed it with --nodeps. The only dependency that was really missing was libexpat.so.0. I found out that 10.2 has libexpat.so.1.5.0 and just created link libexpat.so.0 to newer one. After that rapi worked OK. I tried kcemirror again and got the same result. But then I remembered you mentioned screensnap. So I tried kcemirror --forceinstall ... and everything started working. I'm not sure it helps you, since I'm using older PDA and can use binary RPM stuff. -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org