Hi,

I have succesfully installed Suse 9.1 Pro on my Laptop (Compaq Presario Notebook) and I have totally migrated from the pre-installed version of Win XP (thanks God no more crashes!). I am very happy with all the software and I´m using it solely for business purposes. This Linux was upgraded from Suse 9.0 to 9.1 . Everything works fine now except two minor issues:

1. I am not able to synchronice (by using Synce) the contacts on my iPaq compaq Pocket PC anymore with these of KDE even after I disable the SUSE firewall- (I was able to do so with Suse 9.0 and Kernel 2.4)

2. Altought suspend to disk works well, after I turn the laptop on the sound doesn´t work - everything else looks fine.

Please any ideas?


Thanks very much for your help!

are you doing this from the command line or gui ? if from the command line, what errors if any are generated ? i have never attempted a sync using the gui.

it has been awhile since i used sync software with my pocketpc, however i would wonder at what stage of the chain the problem exists at. is it with the usb connection or with the actual sync ?

Hi, thanks for the answer.

The Ipaq seems to connect ok, I see that is being recognised as an USB device, it even tries to connect (on the ipaq΄s screen I get the message ¨connecting to host, retry 3¨) but then nothing happens.

The dmesg shows:

usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5
usbserial 1-2:1.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected
usb 1-2: PocketPC PDA converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
linux:/home/tassos# synce-serial-config ttyUSB0

You can now run synce-serial-start to start a serial connection.

linux:/home/tassos# synce-serial-start
Terminating on signal 2.
Connect script failed

synce-serial-start was unable to start the PPP daemon!

Please note that SUSE Firewall2 is off

from what you posted, it sounds like a problem with ppp, not with the ipaq's sync software. the ppp daemon is located (on my machine) /usr/sbin/pppd . I notice that as a non-root user i can't start ppp services.

have you tried getting the software to work, while you are logged in as root user ?

Hi robert 644,

Thanks for your answer. I have logged in as root and did exactly the same: a) disabled SUSE firewall, b) started the config program to attach to the correct port, c) initiated the connection.

Unfortunatelly nothing changed, the same messages appeared once again...

Question: are there any other firewall utilities present with kernel 2.6 running at the same time with SUSE firewall2?

When I try to turn SUSE firewall2 on I get
the following message:

Personal Firewall is currently running. SUSE firewall2 will replace it.
Would you like to turn it on?

What is Personal Firewall and how can I configure it?


Thanks very much.


Machine Specs:
Compaq Presario 705EA
AMD Athlon 1GHz
256Mb RAM
SUSE 9.1

Well, well, well, as I expected the sound issue was very easy to solve.
I just run the alsaconf app which restarted the service, and the sound is back after the suspend. I will now write a script that will run immediately after the restore from suspend. Well I think
the issue with the ipaq is as easy to solve as this. I may be a linux newbie but I am also a very experienced computer (not only PC) user, I used to program on a ZX-80 (my first computer) 20 years ago, and with linux the computer magic is back, I feel like I am back in these days (at least the excitement is the same...). Sorry microsoft no more Windows...

I'm sorry but I've read this thread but don't get the solution of the problem connecting a pocketpc. I have the same error from pppd. I didn't install a firewall (i think)... What did you do to make it work?