Registered: Dec 1999
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Posts: 7

i'm using pilot-link and a serial cradle
to sync up with my linux box at work. all the pilot-link utilities seem to work fine, but every now and then when i try doing a full back up using pilot-xfer i get a "weird packet" message and the sync aborts. any
palm/*nix folk out there with a similar situation? also, anybody know of a way to
set up a PPP connection for a telnet app through the hotsync cradle (analogous to the windoze solutions at www.mochasoft.dk/palm.html)?

feeling like too much of a geek,
chimp

Registered: Sep 1999
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Posts: 95

I've been syncing occasionally in Linux, and the only problem I've run into is that the utilites included with my distribution aren't up-to-date enough to sync the info from the 'enhanced' apps like 'City Time', so it looks like I've lost my custom cities (why they left out Cincinnati, & Dayton OH, I'll never understand) until I pretend to add one & cancel (then they're back, but I've got to reselect them).

Registered: Dec 1999
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Posts: 7

Are you using the pilot-link utils? If not,
you should give them a try

(check your local rpm mirror... http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/mirrors.html )

It includes pilot-xfer, which allows you to dump and restore the contents of your visor; this seems to grab all the data from the enhanced Handspring apps for me.

Registered: Sep 1999
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Posts: 95

I'm using K-Pilot which (I believe), uses pilot-link as its back-end. I hadn't tried a restore, I was just referring to the apparent effects of a normal hot-sync at this point.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
Posts: 12

Has anyone looked into trying to use USB with Visor/Linux?

Registered: Sep 1999
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Posts: 95

Check the Developers forum. There's a couple people working on getting a driver done.