Re: Has anyone upgraded to the newest jpilot and pilot-link

[George White <aa056 chebucto ns ca>]

Quoting George White <aa056 chebucto ns ca>:

> Quoting Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>:
> > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 09:26 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It looks like these are the newest versions:
> > > >
> > > > jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre10.fc4.1.i386.rpm
> > > > pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2.i386.rpm
> > > > pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2.i386.rpm
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can *anyone* verify that they has successfully connected to a Palm and
> > run a 
> > > > backup?
> > > 
> > > The last couple kernel updates seem to have fixed the slow creation of
> the
> > 
> > > /dev/ttyUSB? nodes, but I can't even get pilot-xfer to work with a Palm 
> > > TE.  This AM I tried 2.6.13-1.1525_FC4 but no improvement over 
> > > 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4. My system is a fews years old and does not support 
> > > USB2.
> > > 
> > 
> > Where did you get the kernel 2.6.13-1.1525_FC4 ?  I do not find it in
> > the released kernels.
> > If you got it from testing I can't help with anything related since I
> > only use the released kernels.
> 
> Even worse! -- <http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC4>
> 
> > > I was doing backups with an fc3 box, but that stopped working with the
> > > last kernel update (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3smp).
> > > 
> > > For those who are having success, which kernel and hardware do you have?

I was able to sync on both fc3 and fc4 last night, so it appears that the
key to success is timing.  Oon fc3 I was starting the sync on the palm and
waiting 10s before running pilot-xfer or starting the sync in jpilot.  With the
latest kernel this appears to be too long.  My current guess is 3-4 s on FC4
(P4 1.8 Ghz) and 6s on FC3 (PPro 200 mhz). 



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George N. White III
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia