On Saturday 02 August 2003 06:56, owen.churchcowley wrote:
I've just bought a zaurus SL-5500 and am trying to get it to sync with linux. I've got the qtopia desktop rpm to install but still can't access my PDA. Suse (haven't got rpm installed on my lfs system) seems to think the zaurus is a modem, but that doesn't seem right to me.
depending on your Distro/Kernel of choice this can be a great game.
The qtopia desktop is just a PIM frontend and file transfer manager, nothing to do with the mechanics of the Zaurus sync itself.
The Zaurus appears as a TCP over USB device, you have a network connection to it and it behaves just like another network connected machine.
On Debian machines and Kernel's 2.4.21 and above it is really easy to set up, older kernels and some other distro's (like SuSE) require a bit of twiddling. If you are quite new to linux the instructions look a bit daunting, but then if you've made it through LFS then you can probably handle yourself :o)
Anyways here is a helpful how-to.
http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html
Mail back if you get stuck.