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Which Mac / Palm combinations supported?
Authored by: Sawtoothed on Sep 09, '03 03:05:19PM
The solution is to set malsync to do a network sync, install and activate USB-TCP Bridge, then do a regular (cable/cradle) hotsync on the palm.

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Which Mac / Palm combinations supported?
Authored by: bthoma on Sep 11, '03 11:34:46AM

Okay - newbie poster here... I didn't see a forum topic relating to this hint, hope this is the right place to look for help.

I miss AvantGo and I'm not prepared to pay for iSiloX yet. Beyond that, I like to make things work where I can...

I'm using a standard Palm USB cradle, plugged directly into my PowerBook. I was using AvantGo under 9.2 so it has the associated .prc files installed and configured. AvantGo worked correctly under 9.2.

I know next to zip about Unix and CLI, but I'm trying. I am unable to get malsync to work, with or without the USB-TCP Bridge app.

According to the "Readme-AvantGo" documentation in the malsync download:
"Determine the correct serial port to which your Palm device is connected. Two common options are /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. Do one of two things:
- set the PILOTPORT environment variable to that device, e.g.
setenv PILOTPORT /dev/ttyS1
- OR, bind the /dev/pilot port to the serial device, e.g.
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/pilot (root access required)"

Looking at Apple System Profiler I see that my cradle is plugged into USB 0, while I have a hub plugged into the other USB port (USB 1), therefore I presumed that the correct device port should be ttys0. In the supplied applescript I changed the orignal line "PILOTPORT=/dev/tty.USA19QI23P1.1" to "PILOTPORT=/dev/ttys0"

I disabled HotSync, ran the script, Terminal output said it was waiting for HotSync. I pressed the sync button on the cradle, but no connection is ever made between the device and my laptop. Eventually the hotsync operation times out with an error.

I'm at a loss and any help would be appreciated. Again, I apologize if this is the wrong place to be asking this kind of stuff.



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