ShaneK

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Hi, a bit confused here

I've been trying to get either Kpilot or Jpilot to sync with my Palm Vx handheld. This cradle uses the serial port connection, not USB. Neither program works. Both give me error messages when the sync process on the palm gets to identifying user. My distro is Fedora Core 4.

Here's the Jpilot output:

Username is ""
User ID is -1079994272
lastSyncPC = 134821792
This PC = 1388059528
dlp_OpenConduit() failed
Sync canceled
Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_OPEN_CONDUIT
Finished

And the Kpilot output:

08:36:21 Trying to open device /dev/ttyS0...
08:36:21 Device link ready.
08:36:43 Checking last PC...
08:36:43 Could not read user information from the Pilot. Perhaps you have a password set on the device?
08:36:43 The connection to the handheld was lost. Synchronization cannot continue.
08:36:43 HotSync Completed.
08:36:43 Next HotSync will be: HotSync. Please press the HotSync button.


Unfortunately, it isn't as easy as removing my password from the palm, because there isn't one.

I have both programs setup to look for the device on /dev/ttyS0.

Interestingly enough, I can, without any trouble use pilot-link from the command line to connect to the palm. For example:

worked just fine, writing a file called testaddress to my home directory.

To get pilot-link to work, I had to do this first:

So where to now?

Thanks!

Larry Hand

I had the same problem. Here's how I fixed it--YMMV but good luck:

My settings on the Vx:
Hotsync/Connection Setup/Direct Serial/edit/details:
Speed: 115200
Flow Ctl: Automatic

I ran the configuration wizard which found the device and set up everything execpt the user name (since I did a cold reset on the Palm). I added my name as the user.

My settings on Kpilot (didn't work):
Settings/Configure Kpilot/General Setup/Device:
Pilot device: /dev/ttyS0
Speed: 115200
Encoding: ISO8859-15
Pilot user: Larry Hand

When I hit the hotsync button I got the connection beep and the Vx said "Identifying User" until it times out saying the connections was lost. Kpilot would stop at 30% sync and a message saying "Unable to read system information from pilot."

So I installed pilot-link and set it up as follows:
My settings on pilot-xfer (didn't work):
PILOTRATE=115200
export PILOTRATE
Then I ran pilot-xfer in list mode:
pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyS0 -l

I hit the hotsync button and the Vx behaved as above. Pilot-xfer said it Connected, then said "Error read system info on /dev/ttyS0."

I fumbled around a while, and re-ran pilot-xfer in a different terminal window and IT WORKED! It still didn't work under kpilot, though. So I started digging around.

I ran stty -F /dev/ttyS0 and saw the speed was 9600. I checked while running pilot-xfer (the one that worked) and it was 9600. I ran the one that didn't work and it was 115200. I ran kpilot and the speed was 115200. Hmmm.

I told kpilot to set the speed to 9600 and pressed the hotsync button and everything worked great.

My Palm Vx still says 115200, but it apparently is only going 9600 no mater what the speed is set to. Oh well, at least it's working now and I can back up my Palm. If I get the speed problem figured out, I'll post it here.

Hope this helps anyone else with the same problem.

Larry.

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