On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 09:46 -0500, jack wallen wrote: > i've been using linux for over 10 years now. one of the single most > frustrating aspects of the OS is how difficult it is to get a PDA to > sync. i'm not sure why but every time i re-install fedora (or red hat > when i was using that distro), the thing that caused me the most grief > was the pda. > > and now - after so many years - i'm working with FC4 thinking "surely > they've figured it out by now". well, they haven't. syncing a sony clie > is still a nightmare. i can't get it to work and i'm about to tell > myself my days with a pda are pretty much over. > > so does anyone know why such amazing developers within the Linux > community can't seem to make syncing a pda a simple task? What are you trying to sync with? I too have a Sony Clie, and I've been successful syncing with it out of the box, with some caveats. First, I use jpilot. Years ago I tried using gnome-pilot and related, but I gave up because it was so sporadic. I haven't gone back to try again. Perhaps I should... Anyway, with FC3 and FC4 I had to sync as root. Which is not right or good. But I found a simple solution from the archives of I think this list that allows me to sync quickly and as my regular user. Note that FC4 is supposed to allow you to sync out of the box as a regular user, but the permissions and ownership of the dynamically available /dev/ttyUSB1 are not correct, and the link takes a very long time to materialize (~5 seconds for me). So here's what I did (thanks to the archives for this solution). As root, mknod /mnt/pilot c 188 1 Then chmod a+rw /mnt/pilot Voila. Then tell jpilot to use this link, and it all works nicely. Dan > > just curious. > > and if anyone has had any luck getting an out of box FC4 to sync with a > sony i'd much appreciate any help. > > -- > \||/ jack wallen, jr > 00 www.monkeypantz.net > > > - >
