[Sussex] Palm OS, Kontact/Kpim and/or a W98 Laptop???

[John D.]

Wotcha list,

My palm based Treo 650 is being rather temperamental when syncing with 
Kontact/Kpim.

I have wine installed, but haven't managed to install the windows based Palm 
desktop software - don't even know where to start with wine!

The Treo 650 normally connects via usb and it _should_  just be a case of 
starting the kpilot app and hitting the sync button on the palms USB 
connection lead - but at the moment nothings happening.

I have the palm desktop software installed on Clares' laptop, but for the life 
of me I can't make that connect to the internet either (which I suspect is to 
do with when I had it networked via Samba - but can't work out what I need to 
do to get it connecting - which would be handy as I think theres an update to 
the firware for the Treo 650).

I digress. Where should I be looking to find out whats going on with the Treo 
650 connection to my system, and why it's not wanting to sync?

Plus, does anyone have any good links to wine howtos for idiots (me) so I can 
see if I can get the desktop software installed ?

regards

John D.

p.s. Oh and I'm currently running Sidux (based on debian SID) - fully updated 
etc.