syncing with Windows Media 5 via USB and / or Wifi

[extraketchup]

HELP!

I'd really like to be able to sync my new HP rx1950 Ipaq Pocket PC with my various KDE PIM tools. I'm not having much luck, and I'm not finding much useful on the Internet.

When I connect the Ipaq via USB sync, which runs the new Windows Mobile 5 OS, it shows up as a "Generic RNDIS" device, however it doesn't take a driver, and I've tried the following Kernel modules with no avail: ipaq (under USB serial converters), generic usbserial, even rndis_host and usbnet. The modules load fine, but none seem to work with my Ipaq.

So, how do I get Linux to recognize my Ipaq (via USB driver), and once it does, which program can communicate with Windows Mobile 5? I use mostly KDE programs, so something like kitchensync would be fine, but I'm thinking it won't be as easy as I'd like.

Also, this Ipaq has wifi, so I wonder if there is a way to sync via the wifi vs. plugging in the USB cable? I've read somewhere that the latest PocketPC OS disables this (grrr!). I'm half-tempted to write my own program to extract the data from the files on the Ipaq and send that data somehow over the wifi to my notebook. Anyone aware of a Cygwin or even a simple ssh client and / or server for PocketPC?

I sure hope someone can steer me in the right direction - thanks!!!

Mike

[fank]

http://www.synce.org/index.php/Building ... Subversion
try this, please, and report if you success
I trying to use Ipaq 2490 haplessly, because http://www.synce.org/index.php/Connecti ... ce_via_USB

usb-rndis does not yet work with Intel PXA27x-based devices because of their flaky USB client implementation. These devices require a work-around of some sort, which the ActiveSync driver does, but it is at this point unknown what it is. If you try to connect such an unsupported device, you will get the error message:

sorry fo my English

[ilm]

Apparently, the rndis support has been updated... anyone had any luck with it?

And is there any ebuilds for this, or do we have to do it manually?

[extraketchup]

I've been wanting to get back to this post for a while (out of site, out of mind). My IPAQ has both WIFI and a SD card, so I can more easily get data by just popping out the SD card. However, how do I read / write the proprietary "pim.vol" file?

When using sync, does this software decode this file so I can sync with my KDE pim apps? Is the data stream across the USB in this format, or is it in an "open" format that makes it easy to import and export with Linux apps? I can't imagine anything MS does as open, so back to my question - how do I take data locked up in the pim.vol file and import / export data between it and my kmail, kontact, etc.?