The gadget is really good.

I can't give it 10 as it would imply syncing is straight forward. That it is plug and play. That is not so.

But once you follow the hacks syncing is almost perfect.
(I will write about the hacks some other time)

It can sync with KPilot and JPilot.
But you have to do it like this:

For KPilot (do not open the app yet), you first press SYNC on the Palm and then open the app KPilot straight afterwards.

For JPilot you may open the app, and then you click sync on the Palm first and then sync on JPilot.

otherwise you get errors on both.

Once you get the hang of it - is no problem.

The downside is that any program like Photos, etc are only available in Windows, so you can't use those desktop-sync software in Linux.

If you are not terribly allergic to Windows - you do those like once in a while to upload essential photos including thumbnails for the address book.

But the Palm's: Calendar, Address, Todo and Memo all will sync alright in Linux.

KPilot syncing is really thorough, JPilot is really fast.

I recommend the product - it gave me way more joy than frustration. Which can be pretty unusual with gadgets on Linux. Really love it.

Palm Z22 is cheap and good.
Kernel 2.6 in Slack 11.0 detects it easily. Device is /dev/tts/USB[1,3,5,7,9}] an drivers are usbserial and visor.
In order to sync it with kpilot one needs to:
1. Change the /etc/udev/rules.d/udev-rules modifying the line
KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME=="tts/USB%n", GROUP=="tty", MODE=="0666"
to give device user permission.
2. Write an /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rule to create the /dev/pilot symlink as follows
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK+="pilot"
Note the = in SYMLINK+. Cannot be an ==
Device is created when Palm is plugged in a USB connector.
3.As Henryq pointed out:
"For KPilot (do not open the app yet), you first press SYNC on the Palm and then open the app KPilot straight afterwards. Otherwise you get errors."
For the rest I refer to Henryq review's.

I was rather frustrated when I first purchased this device because it is rather unwieldy to sync the first few times.

To reiterate and simplify what was stated above (which was all very helpful, by the way):

- make sure that the kernel modules "usbserial" and "visor" are loaded
- for kPilot, plug in the device, hit hotsync on the device, THEN open kPilot. I did this by placing an icon on my kicker panel.

The only issues I had other than that was that syncing twice in one instance of kPilot seems impossible (it always locks up). But, all you have to do to install files is request the files to be installed, completely close kPilot, then repeat the sync process (plug in, hit hotsync, open kpilot) again. It installs the files anyway.


The device itself is useful. It's good as a pocket organizer, but it lacks the computing power to do anything significant. A few games and a check register program were about all it has room for (without leaving no room for anything else). Then again, for $100, that's not bad.