From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 12:54:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88CFE16A407 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:54:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF94643D67 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:54:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GaAw2-0000gP-RT for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:54:14 +0200 Received: from c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.85.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:54:14 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:54:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:53:18 -0400 Lines: 73 Message-ID: References: <200610171801.44321.amistry@am-productions.biz> <200610180209.00047.amistry@am-productions.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060804) In-Reply-To: <200610180209.00047.amistry@am-productions.biz> Sender: news Subject: Re: Problems with USB Palm sync X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:54:27 -0000 Anish Mistry wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:22, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> Anish Mistry wrote: >>> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:29, Jonathan Arnold wrote: >>>> Has anyone had any luck using pilot-link to sync JPilot to a >>>> Palm device via the USB? I'm trying to sync my Handspring Visor >>>> and it just doesn't seem to be noticing it. I have the following >>>> in my /dev/usbd.conf file: >>> First you shouldn't be using usbd.conf. You should be using >>> devd.conf and devfs.rules. >>> >>> Disable usbd. >>> >>> Add to devd.conf: >>> attach 0 { >>> device-name "ugen[0-9]+"; >>> match "vendor" "0x082d"; >>> match "product" "0x0100"; >>> match "release" "0x0100"; >>> action "/usr/local/sbin/pilot-sync-ugen.sh $device-name"; >>> }; >>> >>> Setup devfs.rules if you have yet to do it: >>> http://am-productions.biz/docs/devfs.rules.php >>> >>> Add your user to the operator group or change the mode to 0666 >>> below. Add to devfs.rules: >>> add path 'ugen*' group operator >>> add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 >>> >>> In /usr/local/sbin/pilot-sync-ugen.sh: >>> #!/bin/sh >>> # >>> JPILOT=/usr/X11R6/bin/jpilot-sync >>> JPILOT_USER=your_username_here >>> export JPILOT_HOME=/home/$JPILOT_USER >>> PILOTPORT=usb:/dev/$1 >>> COMMAND=`echo $JPILOT -p $PILOTPORT -b` >>> # run command ie. (sync) >>> /usr/bin/su $JPILOT_USER -c "$COMMAND" >> Thanks, this seems to work a little better. Now, when I hit the >> Hot Sync button on the cradle, I get the feedback that there's a >> connection and it says "Identifying user" on the Visor, but it just >> hangs there and eventually gives up. If I comment out the action >> and try it from the commandline, pilot-xfer says " Listening for >> incoming connection on usb:/dev/ugen0... ". It seems to me that >> both are waiting for the other to initiate something. ugen0 doesn't >> get created until I hit the HotSync button, but the pilot-link >> stuff seems to be waiting for that to happen again? > You'll need to install the user: > # install pilot-link username > COMMAND=`echo /usr/local/bin/install-user -p $PILOTPORT -u > $JPILOT_USER -i 1001` I thought it might be something like this, so I played quite a bit last night trying to get this command to work, but still no joy in mudville. I replaced the jpilot-sync COMMAND line with the install-user one, but it still does the same thing. I press the hot sync button, I get the confirmation that a connection was made from the Visor, but both ends just sit there at that point. I feel like I'm ever so close and am just missing one tweak to push it over into usability. BTW, what is the 'uvisor' driver for? Should I be trying to use this one instead of the 'ugen', which is the generic interface? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.