Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:12:48 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Lin Jianfong <ljfong@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer Message-ID: <200302161812.48937.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <F97XFaSTGUqyYFzrc5k000171c8@hotmail.com> References: <F97XFaSTGUqyYFzrc5k000171c8@hotmail.com>
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You may want to talk with the folks at pilot-link.org. They normally hang out in irc.pilot-link.org in the #pilot-link channel. They are still having issues with FreeBSD and USB. On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:33 pm, Lin Jianfong wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. > > The problems : > - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB and > MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried syncing, > the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not the > other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot and > palm to communicate at 9600bps. > > - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing "% > pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup", the process will go thru, it > reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself reported > success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is still EMPTY. > pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. > > I used jpilot version 0.99.4, and pilot-link is 0.11.7. > > I can install applications on the palm using jpilot no problem, just can't > make a full backup of my data on it. I have also tried coldsync, and gpilot, > coldsync simply didn't work for I/O error, gpilot just coredumped > repeatedly. > > I followed the instructions on www.geekhome.net/palm.html to set up my USB > port and kernel. > > Here's my setup : > > in kernel config file : > device uhci > device usb > device ucom > device uvisor > > in etc/usbd.conf : > device "Palm Handheld" > devname "ucom0" > vendor 0x0830 > product 0x0040 > release 0x0100 > > initialized the unit with username and id using "% install-user -p...". > > in /dev : > crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp dialer 138, 128 Feb 15 20:59 ucom > crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp dialer 138, 128 Feb 16 05:53 ucom0 > > when "hotsync" button is pushed : > ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3 > > Anyone has better experience, and any idea what I'm missing here ? > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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