I have a lot of problems using synCE and multisync under Fedora Core 1.
I used this programs under mandrake 9.1 with KDE, and they worked great; but now the program synCE-serial-start give the normal message "synce-serial-start is now waiting for your device to connect ", and the pocketPC give connection ok, but the tray icon and multisync tell me "no device connected".

Can someone help me?

ps. my synce version is 0.8.4-1, the trayicon 0.8-1, and the synCE-multisync plugin 0.8.2-1

This sounds ike me right now... either your PDA is not physically connected - I keep having that trouble myself. Reseating the PDA in it's cradle can fix that. (You'll see that running SynCE without a PDA connected gives the same two messages?

Alternatively, have you configured your firewall to allow the connection? If not, then it will look to SynCE as if there is nothing there and those error messages will occur.

If you have, let us know how.

A test here would be to turn the firewall off and then try connecting. With me, this seemed to work and I now only have usb config. problems... I hope.
Simon

No such luck!

Next step is to make a partnership - which dosn't seem possible without a connection!

Simon

OK Try this:

modprobe usb_serial (or is it usb-serial, can't read my own writing!)

if it is not there, then you cannot sync!
if modprobe inserts the module, then you can try to get a connection.

Simon