Thread: [Palm OS] Hotsync
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TA-t3 is offline TA-t3
2007-11-23 , 13:18
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#7
Ok.
Assuming you have the IP address of your desktop at hand (which you can get from e.g. 'ipconfig' as mfresh described:
  • You need to have osso-xterm installed on your N800
  • You need to have becomeroot installed on your N800
  • If you don't know where they are to be found, start at http://www.gronmayer.com/it/
  • Open an xterm window on your N800
  • Enter 'sudo gainroot' (without the quotes) at the xterm command line prompt
  • Enter 'ping xxx.yyy.zzz.www' (without the quotes and the xxx.yyy.zzz.www replaced with your desktop IP number, dots and all)
If it works, you'll see something like
Code:
$ ping 192.168.1.3
PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=7.97 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.279 ms
Hit Ctrl in osso-xterm and then 'c' at the keyboard (ctrl-C, to abort the program).
If it doesn't work it'll either just hang there or tell you 'no route to host' or some such.

In the former case it should also work with hotsync, in the latter case your N800 and your desktop computer are not visible to each other through your network, or it's the incorrect IP address or something else.

When you're done in xterm, enter 'exit' twice (first to leave the root login, then to exit the xterm)
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