Transfering files to a pocket PC

[ijmbarr]

I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now without any trouble until I tried to upload files on to an old HP jornada 540. I've been using it as an e-book reader.

I'm not looking to sync the device with evolution, just to transfer html files from my laptop to the jornada. I don't have access to the internet with it, only a usb connection that Ubuntu doesn't recognize.

I've downloaded multisync, but I don't know how to get it to work, and its website doesn't have any documentation on it.

Can anyone help?

[Daan]

These HP Jornada devices have Windows on them. Can you use it as a mass storage device? How do you transfer files to it from a desktop that is running Windows?

Connect the device to an usb port, wait a minute, and have a look at the output of

$ sudo dmesg | tail -n20

and then post it here.

[Rubberman]

If the device has a flash card slot, you can copy your files onto that. That's what I do with my Palm TX - for ebooks and stuff it's a lot faster and easier than trying to sync them.

[ijmbarr]

When using windows I used activesync to access the jornada as a mass storage device.

The output to the command was:

[ 56.663180] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:16:d4:31:e4:d0:00:15:c5:a7:4b:88:08:00 SRC=172.22.53.69 DST=172.22.53.104 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5000 DPT=10421 LEN=8
[ 56.666161] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:16:d4:31:e4:d0:00:15:c5:a7:4b:88:08:00 SRC=172.22.53.69 DST=172.22.53.104 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5000 DPT=10421 LEN=8
[ 56.670995] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:16:d4:31:e4:d0:00:15:c5:a7:4b:88:08:00 SRC=172.22.53.69 DST=172.22.53.104 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5000 DPT=10421 LEN=8
[ 56.693594] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:16:d4:31:e4:d0:00:15:c5:a7:4b:88:08:00 SRC=172.22.53.69 DST=172.22.53.104 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5000 DPT=10426 LEN=8
[ 56.701518] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:16:d4:31:e4:d0:00:15:c5:a7:4b:88:08:00 SRC=172.22.53.69 DST=172.22.53.104 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5000 DPT=10426 LEN=8
[ 56.705346] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:16:d4:31:e4:d0:00:15:c5:a7:4b:88:08:00 SRC=172.22.53.69 DST=172.22.53.104 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5000 DPT=10426 LEN=8
[ 1164.987716] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 1165.058785] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1165.228475] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 1165.228498] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 1165.228527] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 1165.228530] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
[ 1165.268106] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for PocketPC PDA
[ 1165.268114] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c: USB PocketPC PDA driver v0.5
[ 1165.268143] ipaq 2-2:1.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected
[ 1165.269714] usb 2-2: PocketPC PDA converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 1165.269730] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipaq
[ 1202.798256] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 1202.798720] ipaq ttyUSB0: PocketPC PDA converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 1202.798740] ipaq 2-2:1.0: device disconnected

[Daan]

From the output I get that it's not a mass storage device, which should get automatically mounted. You have been a rather limited with information on what multisync is (how are we supposed to know?), but I see that's a program for PDA's including your particular model. It's in the Debian repositories, so I assume that it is also in the Ubuntu repositories. To install, do

sudo aptitude intstall multisync

Always first look in the Ubuntu repositories before you try to install something in a non Debian/Ubuntu way.