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I'm trying to sync my Palm Pilot with little luck...help
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Post by 900i »

I would think you need to run gnome-pilot, I think it is in system>preferences
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900i wrote:I would think you need to run gnome-pilot, I think it is in system>preferences
Tried that. I didn't recognize it.
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Post by awong »

I have successfully synced my Palm m130 on Mint 3.0 (livecd) with both gnome-pilot and jpilot by typing the following in a terminal:

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sudo modprobe visor
Reference:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PalmDeviceSetup
Then I use the port settings /dev/ttyUSB0 for hot syncing. This is my first post and I'd just like to say that I'm really enjoying Mint! :D
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Welcome to Mint awong
Thanks for helping - that's much what Linux is about
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Hot syncing Palm PDAs with Linux Mint 3.0 install

Post by awong »

Thanks for the kind welcome! Well, I've finally gone and installed my first Linux distro! It was a close choice between Elive and Mint... (the reason I chose Mint is because it's slightly more polished, IMO.) I'm still tied to Windows XP as I've set up a dual boot. Maybe that will change in the future...

Back on topic, I figured out how to set up my Palm m130 to hot sync after installing Mint 3.0, as it wasn't working as well as the livecd boot.

Open up the terminal and type:

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gksudo gedit /etc/modules
And add the following line to the bottom of the list:

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visor
I have found that my PDA has syncing problems with many distros, but I believe this fixes most of the recent Debian type distros. Incidentally, the Palm syncs with no problems using Debian 4.0 or Elive.

Reference (google is your friend):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=14

Now time to get some sleep. Cheers!
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