This is actually a very nice Palm Pilot for those of us who use them for the basic purposes that they were intended for (calendar, tasks, address book, notes, etc) rather than fancy software and games and the like.

On my PC it connects in /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 and I needed to chmod 666 that file. After that it was simple to set up using the Gnome palm pilot stuff that comes with Fedora.

I got my Zire for free but I think it's worth the price it costs new (plus you can find tons of them for sale cheaply since they're given away often as promotions). The "no cradle" thing is really handy (less crap on my desk) and I love the fact that it charges via USB cable.

Hi,

I've got a Zire21, but when I connect it to my notebook via usb nothing happens. What modules must I have installed???

I have a PalmOne Zire 31 and after some tweaking, was able to get it to work fine. The device that is created by udev on my system is not /dev/ttyUSB1 as much of the documentation available states, but
/dev/tts/USB1 instead. Once I figured this out, it connected perfectly. I am using Jpilot and the only caveat here is you must click the sync button on the Palm first, before you click the sync button in Jpilot.

Gnome-pilot and evolution were utterly worthless as far as this PDA goes, and I have never been able to get them to work, so I stick with Jpilot.

I use some hidden (password protected) fields in my Palm, but Jpilot has trouble with the Keys-Gtkr.pc3 file, and never did create one. Surprisingly enough, everything still works.

I have a Z22. It syncs with Jpilot (0.99.7) and Kpilot (4.6.0 and 4.5.4). The device ist created at /dev/ttyUSB1.

There are two workarounds to get it work:
With Jpilot you have to click the sync button on the Palm first, before you click the sync button in Jpilot (see posting above).

With Kpilot you have to click the sync button on the palm and then the reload button in Kpilot. See https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdepim-users/2005-December/005987.html
for details.

The mail conduit is not working with Kpilot 4.6.0 (KDE 3.5). See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120662 for details.

There are some postings that you have to be in the uucp group (Suse). Otherwise your palm won't be recognised. If you can sync as root but not as normal user change the rights of our device link to read-write.