[NTLUG:Discuss] Palm, USB, J-Pilot, Mandrake 9 ?

[mike]

I upgraded to mandrake 9 (installed mandrake 9 in /, kept my /home, etc. 
partitions) on my primary home box this weekend.  Boots got slower, 
everything else got smoother. 

So far, only minor tweaks necessary (my kppp config didn't work with the new 
kppp, etc.) except, jpilot stopped accepting my handspring on USB. 

On 8.0,  the usb devices mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0 ....    I had to setup my own 
link from /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyUSB1... I was reinstalling the usbserial 
module everytime I synced on usb.  

On 9.0,  the usb devices map to /dev/usb/tts/0 ...   The /dev/pilot link is 
already there, the modules autoload and unload.   

The problem: On mandrake 9, i've been able to sync to jpilot with std serial, 
i've been able to sync pilot-xfer with usb, but nothing i've tried will sync 
to jpilot over usb. I keep getting error -13 .   jpilot man doesn't cover 
errors well at all. 

Has anyone got a usb palm OS device to sync to jpilot, kpilot, or gnome PIM(?) 
on Mandrake 9? Where do I look? 
 

I evaluated red hat 7.3, peanut 9.3, and Progeny 1.0 (WAY out of date, based 
on debian potato) as part of this upgrade. Of these,  I like the smoothness 
of mandrake, but red hat is doing something far better.   Open office takes 
20-30 seconds to come up on mandrake. On redhat, the screens popped up in 3-5 
seconds (same box, slower hard drive.) (rh 7.3 Has OO.o 0.99, man 9 has OO.o 
1.01, but you wouldn't think they would have that much difference.)