Having been through this exercise over the last three days,
and admiring David Derosiers admirable patience over the
hoi polloi's continued incomprehension of USB land on Unix
here is what worked for me.
I hope this helps someone:-
Problem: Palm's own Desktop Mac Port is seriously deranged from a visual
and usability perspective.
Solution: Install J-Pilot as previously used on Mandrake/Ubuntu before
being seduced by OSX
Pre-requisites:
Apple Macintosh: OSX Version 10.4, Tungsten E Palm Pilot
Problem: No binary distribution under Fink/Darwinports/Macports
(why are there three different worlds doing the
same thing? - don't ask)
Here is what worked for me:-
Backup Palm Data to existing platform
Install X11 from Apple CDs
Install Xcode Tools CD -> Xcode Tools folder
make sure X11 runs. Install a simple X11 app (eg xnview) to test.
Install MacPorts (for no other reason than someone suggested it in the
office)
www.macports.org ->downloads -> do it
then install the X libraries
sudo port install xorg
then jpilot
353 sudo port install jpilot
long compile messages, eventually bombing out with no XML parser found.
354 port search parser
356 sudo port install p5-xml-parser
finishes correctly, restart jpilot compile
357 sudo port install jpilot
Yay, all wonderful. Use the "port search `some string`" to fix
omissions etc.
Find out where the jpilot binary is....
359 which jpilot
Under X11, customise the menu to allow you to start jpilot under X11
this happened to be for me /opt/local/bin/jpilot. YMMV.
After jpilot starts, open preferences, 2nd Tab, Settings and put "usb:"
in "Serial Port".
Sync Palm Pilot.
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Things that drove me crazy.......
figuring out which of Fink/Darwinports/Macports to use....
"port search something" to correct all the error messages
and putting "usb:" in the Serial Port application finally
(not "-p usb:") to get it all going.
Hope this helps someone.
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