Hi. Any help on syncing my sony clie with mozilla or something else would be nice. I've looked over some how-tos but they skip many details which I can't handle yet. So I'd prefer a newbie kind of explanation. Thanks.
Hi. Any help on syncing my sony clie with mozilla or something else would be nice.
I'm not sure why you would sync you clie with *mozilla*, as it's a browser.
Do you mean download web pages to your Clie? Try Plucker or AvantGo.
Syncing the palm involves usb-serial, visor, and jpilot and is relatively easy to get working, there's lots of help on this on the net.
I've looked over some how-tos but they skip many details which I can't handle yet. So I'd prefer a newbie kind of explanation. Thanks.
Walter Francis wrote:
Hi. Any help on syncing my sony clie with mozilla or something else would be nice.
I'm not sure why you would sync you clie with *mozilla*, as it's a browser.
Do you mean download web pages to your Clie? Try Plucker or AvantGo.
Ok. I mean sync with calendar plug-in and address book built in mozilla
Syncing the palm involves usb-serial, visor, and jpilot and is relatively easy to get working, there's lots of help on this on the net.
As far as I know, I can sync it in three different ways: USB Cradle (when I press hotsync I get something like that some drivers are missing) IR (I have a usb/ir dongle which I can't just get to work - again some kind of drivers problem) WIFI (already made ssh to desktop successfully just for fun, however can't sync :( )
I know about j-pilot but it asks for /dev/pilot - what's this ? I don't know what visor is.
I think the problem is that some kind of driver is missing for fedora to recognize my palm.
Thanks. Googling for usb-serial, visor and jpilot...
I've looked over some how-tos but they skip many details which I can't handle yet. So I'd prefer a newbie kind of explanation. Thanks.
sergio wrote:
I know about j-pilot but it asks for /dev/pilot - what's this ?
/dev/pilot is a link to the device file your Clie connects through, e.g.:
[john@starfleet john]$ ls -l /dev/pilot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 25 2004 /dev/pilot -> /dev/ttyUSB0
I don't know what visor is.
"visor" is the kernel module that allows your Clie to communicate with your computer. It needs to be loaded in order for this communication to occur. Ideally hotplug should load it automatically when the Clie connects.
I think the problem is that some kind of driver is missing for fedora to recognize my palm.
Check that the visor module is loading, e.g. "lsmod|grep visor"
If it isn't, load it manually with "modprobe visor" and try again.
Thanks John. Still no joy :( However got this from tail -f /var/log/messages after /sbin/modprobe visor and started sync from palm:
Sep 1 23:36:47 athos kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-1.2, assigned address 11 Sep 1 23:36:47 athos kernel: usb.c: USB device 11 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x169) is not claimed by any active driver.
I hope this can narrow down the options. By the way I'm with kernel 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl on AMD processor.
John Thompson wrote:
sergio wrote:
I know about j-pilot but it asks for /dev/pilot - what's this ?
/dev/pilot is a link to the device file your Clie connects through, e.g.:
[john@starfleet john]$ ls -l /dev/pilot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 25 2004 /dev/pilot -> /dev/ttyUSB0
I don't know what visor is.
"visor" is the kernel module that allows your Clie to communicate with your computer. It needs to be loaded in order for this communication to occur. Ideally hotplug should load it automatically when the Clie connects.
I think the problem is that some kind of driver is missing for fedora to recognize my palm.
Check that the visor module is loading, e.g. "lsmod|grep visor"
If it isn't, load it manually with "modprobe visor" and try again.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Walter Francis wrote:
Hi. Any help on syncing my sony clie with mozilla or something else would be nice.
I'm not sure why you would sync you clie with *mozilla*, as it's a browser.
Do you mean download web pages to your Clie? Try Plucker or AvantGo.
I'd love to find a precompiled version of Kpilot, or anything else, with the AvantGo conduit already provided.
I used to be able to compile it in, myself, but that stopped working a while back.
I'd love to find a precompiled version of Kpilot, or anything else, with the AvantGo conduit already provided.
Well.. I use jpilot because it works rather well and I really don't do a lot of entry using it anyway, so maybe there's advantages to using Kpilot I don't realize.
But last I tried, the malsync plugin for jpilot worked without any hassle. I had to compile it, but it wasn't any big deal.
I used to be able to compile it in, myself, but that stopped working a while back.
malsync needs pilot-link and such to compile, so you'll need devs and such if there are RPMs for it. Otherwise if it's all from source it should work without any big problem.
I don't use AvantGo that much myself as I don't sync daily, but it's good otherwise. Only thing that bugs me is that places like Yahoo and movies.com 'forget' your settings and when I go to look for a movie or such I just have the screen telling me to put in my information and it'll pull next sync, which doesn't help at all since I'm usually out somewhere.
I can provide you a binary of malsync if that'll help, let me know.
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Walter Francis wrote:
I'd love to find a precompiled version of Kpilot, or anything else, with the AvantGo conduit already provided.
Well.. I use jpilot because it works rather well and I really don't do a lot of entry using it anyway, so maybe there's advantages to using Kpilot I don't realize.
I might have to go that route.
But last I tried, the malsync plugin for jpilot worked without any hassle. I had to compile it, but it wasn't any big deal.
I used to be able to compile it in, myself, but that stopped working a while back.
malsync needs pilot-link and such to compile, so you'll need devs and such if there are RPMs for it. Otherwise if it's all from source it should work without any big problem.
I had the malsync libs already installed. The problem is that the kdepim package, during configuration, is supposed to be able to detect the presence of the malsync libs (libmal, specifically), and then compile the malsync conduit. It hasn't done so for me since the latest update to kdepim for RHL9 (can't remember the version, now).
I don't use AvantGo that much myself as I don't sync daily, but it's good otherwise. Only thing that bugs me is that places like Yahoo and movies.com 'forget' your settings and when I go to look for a movie or such I just have the screen telling me to put in my information and it'll pull next sync, which doesn't help at all since I'm usually out somewhere.
That was the one reason I dropped Yahoo from my sync AvantGo channels.
I can provide you a binary of malsync if that'll help, let me know.
Sure.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, sergio wrote:
Hi. Any help on syncing my sony clie with mozilla or something else would be nice. I've looked over some how-tos but they skip many details which I can't handle yet. So I'd prefer a newbie kind of explanation.
If you're running KDE, there's Kpilot.
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