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Palm Zire + PIM (Korganizer, etc.)

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Wednesday, February 12th 2003, 3:26pm

Palm Zire + PIM (Korganizer, etc.)

I have a Palm Zire and am curious if anyone else has had good success with one under Linux/KDE 3.1 with the synchronization? Is it pretty well supported?

I had a Tungsten, and took it back just due to the fact that Linux support for it seemed like months away :(
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Wednesday, February 12th 2003, 8:19pm

i would check out KPilot, im not sure how updated it is but heres a link:

http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/

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Wednesday, February 12th 2003, 8:26pm

thanks kal

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Wednesday, February 12th 2003, 8:27pm

Re: Palm Zire + PIM (Korganizer, etc.)

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I have a Palm Zire and am curious if anyone else has had good success with one under Linux/KDE 3.1 with the synchronization? Is it pretty well supported?


You need linux kernel-2.4.20 or newer to use Zire. I tried it and my experience was pretty negative. Everytime I tried to install a program my system crashed :( Altought calendar synchronization worked more or less.

Zire support is included in visor module. So just load it and try kpilot or coldsync or similar synchronization tool.
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Thursday, February 13th 2003, 12:40am

can't say I'm too thrilled to hear that... were you using the 2.4.20 kernel when you were having problems with it? Once a kernel supports it (for example 2.4.20) is "improved" support for the PDA then up to the maintainers of pilot-link, kpilot and the KDE-PIM suite? Or is waiting for improvements in the kernel for it part of the deal as well?

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Thursday, February 13th 2003, 3:47pm

Zire support in KDE-PIM

You know, there's a mailing list for this kind of question. It's called kde-pim@kde.org, and that's where people with expertise on these issues watch for questions. I'm not particularly thrilled to see yet-another-forum where things don't get answered accurately.

Anyway, as for the Zire, it wasn't being recognized by the USB stack until very recently. People have reported lock-ups with it, but it's unclear whether that's a kernel or user-level problem.

If KPilot doesn't work with your Palm device, let the mailing list know, file a bug report, provide useful and detailed information. Don't complain in some obscure web forum.

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Tuesday, October 14th 2003, 3:06am

I have a Palm M125, and it won't let me sync. It tells me it can't open the pilot file. The kpilot site says it works with an M125 USB on SuSE, but I have Red Hat 9. Can someone help me, please? I taked care of this, and I'll be through with Windows. I am anxious not to have to rebooyt into different partitions whenever I need to sync.
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