Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:01:34 +0100 From: Tony Hacche <agh@nosc.ja.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: pilot-link, Visor & USB Message-ID: <20030612100134.GH20508@nosc.ja.net>
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Hi, I know there are issues with syncing Palms via USB, but thought I would ask the colective wisdom of this list anyway ;o) I followed the howto at http://www.geekhome.net/palm.html to get my HandSpring Visor syncing with pilot-link via the USB port (running FreeBSD v4.8 by the way). What I did went something like this: (1) Reconfigured kernel to include support for ucom and uvisor (uhci and usb support was already there). Removed support for all other usb related stuff that I don't use (ohci, ugen, uhid, ulpt, umass, ums, uscanner, urio, aue, cue, kue). (2) make buildkernel KERNCONF=LOCAL (LOCAL being the name of my modified) make installkernel KERNCONF=LOCAL (kernel configuration file) (3) Removed all the crap from /etc/usbd.conf and added: device "Handspring Visor" devname "ucom0" vendor 0x082d product 0x0100 release 0x0100 (4) Created the appropriate devices in /dev: sh MAKEDEV ucom sh MAKEDEV ucom0 ln -s /dev/ucom0 pilot ln -s /dev/ucom0 palm ln -s /dev/ucom0 visor (5) Added my user login to the dialer group. (6) Installed JPilot (and therefore pilot-link) from the ports collection. (7) Rebooted. (8) Ran tail -f /var/log/messages and hit the HotSync button on the USB cradle to check thhat the Visor was talking to ucom0 bash-2.05b$ tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 11 16:32:30 mulder /kernel: ucom0: Handspring Inc Handspring Visor, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2 Jun 11 16:32:30 mulder /kernel: ucom0: Handspring Inc Handspring Visor, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2 Jun 11 16:32:35 mulder /kernel: ucom0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected Jun 11 16:32:35 mulder /kernel: ucom0: detached (9) Added the PILOTPORT=/dev/ucom0 environment variable to my login script. (10) Fired up install-user from the pilot-link application (hit HotSync button on USB cradle first to get Visor talking to ucom0) which claims then to be listening to ucom0, /var/log/messages reported and IO error and install-user just sits there. When you kill install-user this crashes the machine and forces it to reboot. Not nice. It was all going so well until the last part ;o) Can anyone offer any words of wisdom as to where I went wrong and how to correct it? Thanks, Tony -- ********************** * Tony Hacche * * ULCC * * 20 Guilford Street * * London WC1N 1DZ * ********************** * JOD: 0870 850 6672 * * DDI: 020 7692 1440 * * FAX: 0870 850 6673 * * MOB: 07866 623093 * ********************** "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." (Samuel Johnson)
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