Description of problem: I connected my Palm Vx via serial (yep, it is oldish) to this PC (via a serial <--> USB cable, new machine with no serial ports), but it won't sync at all: gnome-pilot applet just hangs, Palm times out). Same thing with a direct connection to an x86_64 machine, BTW. Reading from the serial port to a file and pressing the HotSync button gives some 99 bytes of gibberish, so the serial connection is working. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-pilot-2.0.13-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pilot in craddle, start gnome-pilot-applet, -> Forward, configure serial port (57600 or 19600 makes no difference) 2. Ask for syncing, press HotSync button 3. Actual results: Applet hang, Palm timeout Expected results: Syncing? Additional info: I did this before with the same Palm under RH9 I believe, so I don't think I'm doing everything wrong.
Now the communication itself does work, but neither gnome-pilot nor jpilot are able to talk to the device, gnome-pilot and jpilot get confused by the username set on the Palm as far as I can see. pilot-xfer works fine, and as the others are just too confusing for use (no decent way of editing the username in the Palm, I can't for the life of me figure out how to edit and push individual files back, ...), I'm giving up. gnome-pilot-2.0.13-6.fc5 jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre9.1 pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.2
Can you give more info on the error messages you get? Try killing any gpilotd process and starting one in a terminal window (/usr/libexec/gpilotd) so that you can see the error messages. This may give you more info to google for... Can you downgrade to the stable release pilot-link 0.11.8?
Closing this bug due to lack of updates. Feel free to re-open it if the problem still exists in the latest Fedora Core 6 packages: gnome-pilot-2.0.15-1.fc6 pilot-link-2:0.11.8-16