Treo 700p paired up with Kbluetooth on f7 x86_64 but jpilot doesn't sync

[JeffZZZ]

Hello,

After reading all the posts on k7 usb hotsync problems. Also getting my verizon treo 700p to marginally work. I went out and bought a USB bluetooth, as some people said it worked better. With kbluetooth I got the device paired and talking. When i first tried to sync with jpilot it caused the treo to reboot. This happened 3 times and now when the hotsync is initiated on the treo side it says that it is "unable to initiate hotsync operation because the port is in use by another application". With Jpilot, sync bombs out with error;

pi_bind error: /dev/pilot No such file or directory
Check your serial port and settings
Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND
Finished

Is there anybody out there who can help me out or get me pointed in the right direction. I have been hitting the treo .org sites and they seem less helpful than here.

Thank you
JeffZZZ

[JeffZZZ]

Hello,

I went back to the cable and used this link http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096.

Make sure libopensync-plugin-palm installed and I used the following 10-visor.rules

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]", SYMLINK+="pilot"

with the same pilot-helper in home directory
#!/bin/sh

until [ -e /dev/pilot ]; do sleep 1; done
exec /usr/bin/pilot-xfer "$@"


Jpilot connects repeatedly.

Kpilot still doesn't connect but it doesn't reset the treo.

If anybody could shed light on bluetooth syncing please help. Would I create a udev rule to govern the bluetooth pilot connection?


JeffZZZ

[JeffZZZ]

Yee haaa!!! Full Kontact sporting all my palm treo 700p info.

I got kpilot working by not using the autodetect in the setup wizard. Just type the user name for the palm and the device location /dev/pilot and hit next in the setup wizard. Repeat do not use the autodetect. This all worked with the info from the last post.

Still haven't been able to connect via bluetooth can anybody shed some light?

JeffZZZ

[JeffZZZ]

I saw that Pilot-link was updated a couple of weeks ago. So I removed all the changes I had made above and tried it. It connects regularly now. Works good in evolution/gnome and consistently in kontact/KDE. Although Kpilot crashed a couple of times and seems to reboot the palm treo 700P. Will reload KDE and kpilot to retry. I had drifted over to centOS5 for treo support, worked great. Still can not get it to sync through bluetooth.

Thanks
JeffZZZ

[A.Serbinski]

For syncing over bluetooth, look up the following on google;

palm linux bluetooth dun

Most of what you see will be for treo 650, but should all be just as applicable for 700.

An additional benefit of bluetooth dun is that while in range, you'll be able to use your regular network connection rather than going through your wireless provider.