From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 13 2:10:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB74037B404 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.viewsnet.com (65-85-207-110.client.dsl.net [65.85.207.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1002643E88 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@viewsnet.com) Received: from jason.argos.org (jason.argos.org [10.193.1.6]) (IDENT: mike) by mail1.viewsnet.com with esmtp; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:09:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Sharp Zaurus sync From: Mike Nowlin To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: FreeBSD Stable In-Reply-To: <20021013081738.GA33907@sr.se> References: <20021013081738.GA33907@sr.se> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 13 Oct 2002 05:10:23 -0400 Message-Id: <1034500224.11587.23.camel@jason> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 04:17, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > Is there any work going on, to sync Sharp Zaurus 5500 to FreeBSD via usb? > > -- > Gunnar Flygt, Postmaster SR This question really breaks down into several different components. I've been silently waiting for someone to take this up, but I figure I'll throw my thoughts into the stockpile... 1) Need to get the USB stack so that the Zaurus is "recognized". Not sure if anything has been done on this, and haven't tried it yet. Should be fairly simple... 2) The Zaurus works by basically running IP over PPP over USB - the Zaurus expects to receive an IP address from the "host". Pretty much the same idea as a standard PPP link, but instead of a serial line, it runs over USB. The Linux package seems to be fairly straight-forward in handling this, but I'm not sure how difficult this would be in FreeBSD. Are there any similar IP->xxx->USB devices out there that ARE supported in FBSD? I'm willing to take a shot at this if anyone can provide some pointers... 3) Once #1 and #2 are working, the rest is pretty-much up to userland. Once things reach this point, you're basically talking about running network apps that use the kernel networking stack to handle the OS-specific stuff. If it works on another OS, it should work on FreeBSD. (The Perl Zaurus<>Evolution program comes to mind...) The standard apps that come with the Z store data as XML-ish, so syncing those apps to desktop programs should be fairly "standards-based"... Can't say the same about the common add-ons, but I also can't say that they don't - haven't looked yet. My "play" FBSD machine and my Zaurus are available for experimentation... :) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message