Mandriva 2008 Spring hotsync with Tapwave Zodiac & J-Pilot

I have been wanting to be able to sync my Tapwave Zodiac1 & 2 pda’s with several different linux distros for about 2 years now with no success. I have been using Mandriva One 2008 Spring with the KDE desktop for over a month now and I think that I have finally found my linux distro of choice. It just seems to work with about everything that I have had problems with in other distros, and a main one was getting my Zodiac pda’s to sync within linux. I had been syncing my Palm m125 with most distos that I have tried both with KDE and GNOME, but I never could get my Zod’s to work. But today was a great day! I took my Zodiac1 and installed J-Pilot 0.99.9 onto my Mandriva system and tried the old /dev/ttyUSB1 and it would not work. So I found this link in the Mandriva Wiki and I found where it said “The visor module is blacklisted, in /etc/modprobe.d/visor, so /dev/ttyUSB1 does not exist” I was getting an error saying that /dev/ttyUSB1 did not exist so I figured I was on the right track. The Wiki also went on to say to enter “usb:” and that would take care of it. I am not going to go into all the details about J-Pilot but if you are trying to get your Zodiac to sync with linux this works great. I am using Mandriva linux and there are a lot of issues that I have had problems with using other distos, but with Mandriva so far I have had nothing but good experiences with everything that I have done.