Comment 69 for bug 282491

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 10:44 +0000, Matt Davey wrote:
Hi Bruce,
>
> Just a quick question:
> are you able to use pilot-xfer? Try: "pilot-xfer -p usb: -l"
>
> If that connects and lists files, then you have a problem on the
> gnome-pilot side, otherwise the problem is at a different level. Either
> way, I suggest you open a new launchpad bug to report your problem - it
> is very hard to track issues effectively if more than one issue is
> reported under a single bug...
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>
> Matt Davey Beware of Greeks bearing gifts - but
> Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
>
> Hi Matt,
pilot-xfer does absolutely nothing. My syslog shows that a full speed usb device is connected, and "lsusb" identifies the Kyocera Wireless Device, so I presume I have something missing on the pilot link side of the deal.
I am an old, and late, comer to computing, so none of this comes naturally to me. When I first went to Ubuntu (because I hate the size, scale, and take it or leave it attitude of giants like Microsoft) I searched "Ubuntu+sync Kyocera 6135"; after several tries found a series of files to amend (had to search to find about "sudo gedit"!!) and lines I cut and pasted into a terminal and it just worked, I didn't even know what pilot link or jPilot were.
It's a year now since gnome pilot has been a goner for me: I would love to fry my XP part and live full time with Linux - but.
All of that said, I am absolutely lost in admiration for all the people with arcane knowledge that are out there in the open source world, and their willingness to share that knowledge. I am, myself, always ready to coach learner motorcyclists, or show new farm workers how to calve a cow, or young people going flatting how to bake a batch of scones, but all of that is basically just life experience - you clever geek-type people have actually learnt how the gizmo inside the box that's connected to the monitor works, and it sometimes scares me that the world has people in it with minds like that!
I will bug you no more on my bug, which, indeed, does not seem to be a Gnome-Pilot issue.
Kind regards,
Bruce Crowther.

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