4 May 2009
(Updated May/09 for Ubuntu 8.10/Ibex): for a long time I couldn’t get JPilot syncing with my Palm Pilot on Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10.
Turns out I wasn’t reading my own instructions. here’s the cleaned up version:
- load visor module sudo modprobe visor and check loaded lsmod | grep visor
- add visor module to /etc/modules
- click sync button on Palm Pilot and check USB devices are being created:
- in one terminal, tail -f /var/log/syslog
/var/log/messages - in a second terminal, check the ownership of links ls -al /dev/ttyUSB* and check you are a member of the appropriate group (usually dialout) grep dialout /etc/group
- in one terminal, tail -f /var/log/syslog
- sudo aptitude install jpilot and start JPilot
- read this step carefully: no need to change the Serial Port setting in Preferences – JPilot will pick up the correct one on the first sync (which is now unexpectedly Other rather than /dev/ttyUSBO or usb:)
- read this step carefully: from jpilot File > Install User, click sync button on Palm Pilot, count to 5, then click Install User button in JPilot dialog box
- click sync button on Palm Pilot, count to 5, then click Sync in JPilot
- if syncing isn’t working (especially on a machine that’s been upgraded from an older version of Ubuntu), try closing JPilot, mv .jpilot .jpilot.bak, restarting JPilot, then doing the Install User steps again
See also:
- (totally off-topic): HOWTO: Import iCalendar (ics) Appointments Into JPilot
- some pages mention installing pilot-link – this isn’t required
- some pages mention modifying files in/etc/udev/rules.d – this no longer seems required
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=79965
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/0234225
http://www.linuxmuse.com/articles.php?action=printerf&article=29
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=177780
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=221854
http://www.rockhopper.dk/linux/hardware/pda.html#chap5_sect1
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/expert/2003-02/msg02508.php
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO.html#PC-CONNECT-USB
http://pilot-link.org/README.usb
Carsten Clasohm’s Blog : USB Palm and Fedora Core 3
Writing udev rules by Daniel Drake
Linux Magazine – The Linux Device Model
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