The [S]RPMS included with this file are based on the FC4 SRPMS to which patches have been added to: - fix a few bugs in the pilot-link API - finish porting gnome-pilot and evolution to the new pilot-link API - fix the worst memory leaks encountered in gnome-pilot, evolution and evolution-data-server while syncing For all the details, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274032 These packages do not fix the (likely kernel and udev) issues regarding udev taking forever to create USB device files for syncing, and that pilot-link is not always able to establish a connection to the PDA. I strongly suspect the latter to be a kernel issue, as FC3 is now having the same problem after the kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 update. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163570 I have bumped the release version of the packages so they will install with 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm'. Hopefully when RedHat comes out with newer packages incorporating these fixes, they will use a higher release number to avoid conflicts; however, that is something you will need to keep an eye out for if you install these packages. Note that to do a sync, you need to have rw permissions to the device created in /dev/ for the pilot. By default, it's only accessible by root. The easiest solution I've found is to add yourself to the 'uucp' group in /etc/group, as the group for /dev/ttyUSB* is set to 'uucp' by default. I recommend ensuring that you have made a backup of your PDA databases before doing a full sync so that you can do a restore if something goes wrong. While the above packages get things into good enough shape that they Work For Me and fix the obvious problems, I haven't done full code audits. To do a backup: 1) make sure you don't have the gnome-pilot applet running in your status bar 2) make sure gpilotd isn't running 3) create an empty directory to hold the backed up databases 4) press 'sync' on the PDA cradle 5) type 'pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b ' Note that you may need to repeat '5' several times before it catches, as udev is taking forever to create /dev/ttyUSB*. Also note that if you use a serial connection, your device will be something other than ttyUSB1. Please post successes or failures to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274032 so that we can determine if all the issues have been ironed out. //Mark