Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:12:55 -0500 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with USB Palm sync Message-ID: <20061020211255.GA29479@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <eh7uc0$pfo$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <eh3eh6$aag$1@sea.gmane.org> <200610171801.44321.amistry@am-productions.biz> <eh46n9$ta9$1@sea.gmane.org> <200610180209.00047.amistry@am-productions.biz> <eh5856$kgl$1@sea.gmane.org> <20061018184431.GA23349@dfwdamian.vail> <eh7uc0$pfo$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:25:19AM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: [snip] > 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. Be extremely careful with this. I was in the exact same situation and managed to wipe out my local Palm data doing a restore. My phone (actually all of the Palm devices I've owned) tends to crash pretty frequently and require hard resets, which wipes out the username and all stored data. In order for J-Pilot to sync with the device, it's going to want the usernames to match between the two. Do _not_ use the File->Restore_Handheld command in J-Pilot to reset the username on the phone. I had an older version of J-Pilot installed and when I did this (only selecting to restore Preferences) and watched as my local data was replaced, not merged, with the data from the phone. Instead, use File->Install_User. I'd recommend that you sync devices daily and also keep backups of the Palm files on your computer. Also, keeping hardcopy backups is a good idea. > >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. I'm glad I could be of assistance. -Damian
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