From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 13:26:24 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 6C81016A417 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:26:24 +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 9E42043D98 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:26:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GaXtr-0005ZV-Nd for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:25:31 +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 ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:25:31 +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 ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:25:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:25:19 -0400 Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <200610171801.44321.amistry@am-productions.biz> <200610180209.00047.amistry@am-productions.biz> <20061018184431.GA23349@dfwdamian.vail> 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: <20061018184431.GA23349@dfwdamian.vail> 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: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:26:24 -0000 Damian Wiest wrote: > Here's what works for me on my FreeBSD 6.1 (x86) laptop and > OpenBSD 3.9 (x86) workstation: > > To use pilot-xfer to sync your Palm device > > 1. Connect cradle to system via USB port > 2. Press the sync button > 3. Execute "sudo pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyU0 -s " where PalmDir > is the location of your Palm data. > 4. Files are transferred from the Palm device > > To use jpilot to sync your Palm device: > > 1. Execute "sudo jpilot" > 2. Select the File->Preferences menu > 3. Select the Settings tab > 4. Change the serial port setting to /dev/ttyU0 > 5. Press the hotsync button on your cradle (or use the HotSync app.) > 6. Press the sync button in J-Pilot > 7. Palm device is synced > > I find that I have better luck pressing sync on my device before running > pilot-xfer or using J-Pilot's sync feature. If you do it the other way > around and aren't quick enough, the /dev/ttyU0 device won't be available > and the application won't retry opening it. Thanks for all your help here! When I first read this, I said to myself that it wouldn't help, that I've tried all these various permutations. Imagine my surprise when it *did* work! I will post a complete followup on my blog, but I did have to load the 'uvisor' driver to get this process to work: # kldload uvisor Which I'm sure I played with before, but now it works. Now I am just struggling to get my Palm, which was recently hard-reset, back to where it was a few months ago. I have the data on my hard drive, but I can't seem to figure out the magical incantation to move it over to the Palm. It is in JPilot, but I haven't quite gotten that to work smoothly. > I know I shouldn't be running the apps as root, but I haven't bothered > to configure /etc/devd.conf and /etc/devfs.rules on my laptop. I've played with this a bit and it is a little weird. Again, I hope to have a full report on my blog some day real soon. And thanks for your (and Anish's) help. Learned a lot about run-time devices! -- 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.