After purchasing my Smartphone, I started configuring the synchronisation between the device and Evolution. Modifying the kernel was pretty straight-forward following this HOW-TO. Of course mine was not supported naturally, so I had to load the module ipaq with this command: modprobe ipaq vendor=0x0bb4 product=0x0a07. If you experience the same problem, you can find your vendor- and product-id with usbview.

So finally I could connect the two, but syncing them was not so easy. The system was too stubborn about events lasting longer than a day, and events from PDA to Evo had a timeshift. After seeking help in IRC, I updated to synce-0.9.1 Unfortunately there are no official ebuilds for gentoo, so I had to write my own (if you are interested, drop me a line). Especially the upgrade of the package synce-rra solved all bugs related to events, so I was encouraged to keep up the work and not to throw the PDA against the wall.

The next thing I discovered was that if the address field of a contact contains more than one line, the address wont sync. This was a good time to fill in the address properly using the city/country/postal-code fields.

After a day work and a lot experimenting I have a quite useful PDA now. The only minus so far is, that multiple email addresses are to much for the PDA, but as the dev of synce promised, there will be a new release soon.

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