[KLUG Members] Sony CLIE, revisited

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
23 Jun 2003 09:16:58 -0400


> > Well, guess what? My fellow SuSE users are going to LOVE to hear this:
> > plugging in a Sony CLIE into a SuSE workstation, and then pointing 
> > KPilot to the device in the settings, and you've got, with one minor 
> > configuration, a fully functioning Palm <-> workstation sync.

I don't know anything about the CLIE, but I'm pretty knowledgable about
gpilot.  Is the CLIE supposed to be palm-sync compatible?

> > and, not too oddly, it works better than the windows utilities that do 
> > the same thing.

Shock!

> > Don't know why they don't work on Red Hat machines, but apparently it's 
> > not an incompatibility, just maybe another hardware issue with Red Hat 
> > (like NVidia cards)
> Maybe it's a Gnome vs. KDE thing. I much prefer Gnome and haven't tried
> it with KPilot. 

There were some RedHat gpilot packages that lacked any option to
actually enable them.