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From: Rick Bragg <lists@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Palm sync with Gnome/Gentoo
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:53:16
Message-Id: 1196182307.7239.113.camel@thor.greenbuzz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Palm sync with Gnome/Gentoo by Matthias Bethke
1 On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 17:20 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote:
2 > Hi Aniruddha,
3 > on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 10:41:48AM +0100, you wrote:
4 > > I had the same problem. It turned out my hotsync cable was broke. Palm not
5 > > showing up in lsusb is a bad sign.
6 >
7 > It's a tricky thing to get to work, I know...
8 >
9 > The weird way the syncing works is that the device will only show up as
10 > a serial device (ttyUSBx and x+1 usually, for some reason I don't really
11 > understand it's actually two ports) for a few seconds after pressing the
12 > sync button. Try "tail -f /var/log/messages" or whatever your catchall
13 > syslog is while the cradle is plugged in, then press the button and see
14 > if something shows up.
15 >
16 > I have the following in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-pilot.rules:
17 > BUS=="usb", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Handspring*", NAME="pilot%n", MODE="0660", GROUP="plugdev", SYMLINK+="%k"
18 >
19 > This works OK with my Visor and the Gnome pilot-conduits/gpilotd.
20 >
21 > HTH,
22 > Matthias
23 >
24
25 Thanks I finally got that all working great.
26
27 I would also like to set up my palm treo 755p with my thinkpad as a usb
28 modem. The account is set up with my provider, but my laptop does not
29 see the modem. I would also still like to be able to switch between my
30 ethernet interface, and wifi card (and select networks) in the easiest
31 way possible.
32
33 Does anybody have experience with all this? There seems to be many
34 packages that deal with networking. ie. networkmanager, wifimanager,
35 wifiradar, kwifimanager... Does anybody have any clear easy advice as
36 to what packages to use, packages to NOT use, how to set configurations?
37
38 Thanks again!
39 Rick
40
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Palm sync with Gnome/Gentoo Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@×××××.com>