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kdepim package

Palm Zire 71 no sync: Kpilot crashes, serial or USB

Bug #163132 reported by Ed Nisley
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kpilot

Fresh 7.10 Kubuntu Gutsy installation, installed kpilot with apt-get.
Palm Zire 71 which previously worked with serial cradle in Kubuntu 7.04 on this machine.

Installed kpilot, put Zire71 in serial cradle, started kpilot, ran connection wizard, aimed kpilot at /dev/ttyS0, at which point kpilot dependably crashes with no trace info or error messages. Same symptoms starting from menu or command line.

Repeated with USB cradle, but visor module is not loaded and udev does not respond. Modified 60-symlinks.rules according to
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-can't-sync-Treo-650-to-Ubuntu-7.10-Gutsy-p13761810.html
and manually modprobed visor module.

Pressing Hotsync button now causes USB detection and /dev/pilot is created, but kpilot crashes as with the serial cradle.

Problems:
Visor module not automagically loaded
Udev rules do not work with Zire71
In any event, kpilot cannot proceed after detecting (at least) the Zire 71 with either serial or USB connections.

With the USB cradle, using [pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -l] and [pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b Zire71] seem to work fine.

This is, unfortunately, a showstopper bug for me: I -must- be able to sync that PDA!

What other information can I provide?

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Just updating some old bugs. Do you still see this bug in newer versions of Kubuntu? If so could you let us know what is the newest version of Kubuntu and kpilot that shows this bug.

thanks,
Rich

Changed in kdepim:
status: New → Incomplete
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Ed Nisley (ed-08-nisley) wrote :

Hearing nothing from anybody about this one and being unable to resolve it on my own, I gave up. It seemed like the underpinnings of kpilot weren't well maintained at that point, but perhaps I misread the situation.

I now maintain my calendar & contact list on my PDA, back the thing up manually using pilot-xfer, and manage to hobble along like that. Not what I'd like to do, but Linux users can get used to the darndest inconveniences.

Basically, I have nothing to add at this point; eventually I'll try 8.04 (or, more likely, 8.10), but that upheaval is not on the gotta-do heap right now.

I'll file another bug if it still doesn't sync, in the hope somebody takes an interest before, oh, 9.04 arrives.

Onward...

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks for the feedback. Closing this bug. Feel free to re-open this or file a new bug if the problem recurs in the future

Changed in kdepim:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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