I have tried for hours and hours to get my Nokia to sync with kdepim using Mandriva. I’ve read all the documentation I could find on the internet and tried five dozen different msynctool configurations and workarounds via for example Funambol (which can not seem to sync to kdepim at all).

Untill my co-worker asked for the bluetooth device and pulled out all addresses and contacts without a single problem from within Gentoo.

As I’m not a big fan of compiling, I decided to switch to OpenSuse. I really like Mandriva and their polish, but I have spent enough time trying to get it to work.

After installing OpenSuse, I configured KitchenSync and to my surprise it synced without any problems my Contacts, even with there photo’s. After setting the KOrganizer Calendar to VCalendar instead of ICalendar, all my agenda items also synced (took me some time to figure that out though).

So, now I can finally use KOrganizer again for my daily work, and that means exploring the huge amount of options. I must say, I’m very pleased with it. It has some KMail specific calls in there, I need to fix those DOESNOTWORKFORME bugs soon. ;-)