In this two-part series, A.Lizard explains how he made his Linux workstation cooperate with a Palm. Part 1 discusses how to get your PDA in sync with your Linux Palm desktop.

Having trouble getting your current-generation Palm PDA connected to Linux? Have you discovered that the Palm desktop programs that came with your distribution simply don’t work as installed? Having trouble finding Linux software that will convert your files to formats that actually work with a Palm? This series explains how to solve these problems and get your two gadgets to play nicely.

If you have a Palm that connects via USB, common Linux Palm apps such as J-Pilot and KPilot won’t work as installed with a Linux distribution, no matter what you put in the connection port under Preferences. This is because both programs are GUI shells running over pilot-link, which, as ordinarily installed, doesn’t recognize USB serial links.

Part 1   |   Part 2 

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