The upcoming Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring release will boast the easiest ever support for synchronizing with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices in any distribution. The adventurous can already try out the support in the current 2008 Spring pre-release repositories, by following the instructions here. Mandriva has uploaded a video demonstrating how easy it is to synchronize with a Windows Mobile 6 device right out of the box with Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. Support is included for synchronizing with both KDE (KDE PIM) and GNOME (Evolution). Similarly easy synchronization is also possible with many Nokia phones and with Blackberry devices.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Um.
You're not running up to date 2008.1.
All the stuff discussed here is based on opensync 0.22, not 0.36. I reverted all the 2008.1 packages from 0.36 to 0.22 as part of this work, late last week.
I also created a metapackage for Blackberry syncing, tested it, and wrote code for KitchenSync so it presents a nice GUI for configuring the Barry plugin (well, I did about 20% of that bit of coding, and annoyed Eduardo Habkost till he more or less did the rest for me, as I don't actually know C++ at all).
Update your repositories to latest Cooker, remove any packages you installed manually, and install task-blackberry-kde . It all works nicely. I just need to add documentation for it to the Wiki page.
Edited 2008-03-20 07:31 UTC
Member since:2008-03-19
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2008-03-19
Now if only they would do something to get blackberrys working.
I'm running Mandriva 2008.1 and here's how I go about syncing my blackberry with evolution.
First off, I had to download the older opensync packages from 2008.0 because barry only works with opensync 0.22.
Secondly, msynctool hangs every time when syncing, but it does manage to sync the data, but it leaves the phone in a messed up state (that's the technical term).
In order to reset the phone you have to run the btool -X command...fine, but that sends the CPU to 100% because dbus-daemon doesn't unload the berry-charge module when the device resets. So in order to fix it you either have to remember to unload the berry-charge module before btool -X or kill the dbus-daemon, remove the module, restart the daemon...
Basically it's a total mess created by the desire to have the newest version of kitchensync installed that requires opensync 0.36 that doesn't work with barry. That and ignoring blackberrys.