zire 31 won't sync
 

will kpilot sync with a Zire 31 palm pilot? It is running palm os 5.2.1 and the pilot-link that i have is version 0.11.8 on slackware current kernel 2.6.5.
-anyone have info?
thanx

Hi,

Did you try doing a chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB1

Then setting the Pilot Device to /dev/ttyUSB1

Let me know if that works for you.

Greg

yeah i did all of that with all the different combinations, but I'm thinking maybe it is just that pilot-link does not yet support palm os 5.2.8 :(

Sorry spec6635....

I looked all over as well and couldn't find any information in regards to kpilot with the new palm os 5.2.8. I am still using palm os 5.2.1. If you get it working please let us know. Good luck.

Greg

Thanks imagreg for your response... it is greatly appreciated. I will keep looking, if anything comes up, I'll post. :)

Oh btw I made an error in my 1st post I put os 5.2.1 instead of 5.2.8

Greg, there's the right place to ask KPilot questions - the mailing list for KPilot, for instance - and the wrong place. This is the wrong place. The chances of anyone with usable information spotting this post is very small. Fortunately, I was googling for "zire 31 sync linux" and ended up here.

Pilot-link (0.11.8 at least), which KPilot is built upon, does support the Zire 31 if you can get your kernel to recognize the device. The standard troubleshooting approach - on the KPilot website - applies. There seem to be file-install problems with larger apps that I'm still tracking down.

i know its been a while since this tread was active but i finally found the solution :), it seems that the visor module for my kernels did not have the right product id for the palm zire section in "/usr/src/linux/driver/usb/serial/visor.c" file changed it from:
#define PALM_ZIRE_ID 0x0070
to:
#define PALM_ZIRE_ID 0x0061
after i did that edit I reinstalled my modules (no need to reboot) :) and voila... hotsync fiesta
this problem also lies with the zire 72 handheld, so this trick should work for it as well.

Did you have to recompile your by doing a make modules && make modules_install? If that's the case, cool. I'm trying it out now. Hope it works as I've been trying to get my Palm Zire 31 to sync for a long time.

yup thats what i did

spec6635, I was trying for days to get my Zire 31 to sync, tearing my hair out ... and your visor.h fix worked! I guess Palm changed sneakily the product IDs for their new Zires (31 and 72). I also managed to find the 'hidden' conduit settings in RH8.0 at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=32250 (thread 32550).
The Zire was the last of my external devices that I needed to get working with Linux, so that I can now finally make the switch. No more Windoze for me! Thanks.

I have now upgraded to FC3. Zire 31/72 support is already in the kernel (2.6.9.667), so no need to rebuild but a little tweaking is necessary. Here's how to do it:

1. Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules containing:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="pilot"

2. Add the following lines to /usr/share/gnome-pilot/devices.xml:
<!-- Palm Zire 31/72 -->
<device vendor_id="0830" product_id="0061" />

3. Run gpilotd-control-applet to configure your conduits, and configure synchronization with Evolution 2.0.

4. Add the Pilot Applet to your Gnome Panel for easy hotsyncing.

I got most of this from http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096. I have established that the Gnome Pilot/Evolution conduits only synchronizes the PalmOS 4-compatible fields - e.g. you can only use one address per contact, and that syncs with the "Business Address" in Evolution. PalmOS 5 lets you add more addresses per contact, but Evolution will only see the first ("Work") address you entered on the Zire. For those of you who had PalmOS 3 and 4 (like me), you will know which fields these are. I recommend creating a test contact entry, filling all of the fields and doing a hotsync. Then open Evolution and see which fields got synced and which didn't. I personally don't have a problem with this, but I do like to know "where the bodies are buried" (to coin a phrase from an old friend).

D'oh! Remove the period from the end of the URL in the previous post. Bad parser!