Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:28:00 -0600 From: Rich Neswold <rneswold@enteract.com> To: supenguin@bigfoot.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handspring. Message-ID: <20010216162800.B35868@drmemory.fnal.gov> In-Reply-To: <3A84C0BC.666A97F5@columbus.rr.com>; from kdrobnac@columbus.rr.com on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:17:00PM -0500 References: <3A849074.76C43CEC@penix.org> <20010209164958.A22634@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3A84C0BC.666A97F5@columbus.rr.com>
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--U+BazGySraz5kW0T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Wasn't it 9-Feb-2001, at 11:17PM, when Kenny Drobnack said: > As far as syncing a Handspring Visor with FreeBSD - dunno. Tried using > the coldsync program which was meant for syncing Palm Pilots, and the > coldsync web page claims that it works with Visors too. When I run > coldsync, I get a message "Please press the hotsync button" and when I > hit the button I get the message two more times, and then either it > locked up or the whole system locks up. Same results using a serial > cradle instead of the USB cradle that came with it. I noticed Linux has > a Handspring Visor driver, not sure what's up with that. I'm successfully sync'ing my Visor using FreeBSD. I'm using the cold-sync port to do this. I needed to modify /etc/usbd.conf to recognise the Visor when the hot-sync button is pressed. 'usbd' then runs 'coldsync' under my account and does the right thing. You specify the generic USB driver (/dev/ugen0) to communicate with the Visor. A warning: If you pull the Visor from the cradle before 'usbd' has completed its USB disconnect cycle, the driver shuts itself down. The only way to recover (that I've seen) is to reboot. There is a USB driver for the Visor in OpenBSD. I pulled over the source file to try to build it, though I haven't had the chance to actually incorpoarte it into the kernel (I still need to find out how to add a USB driver to the kernel source tree, what changes need to be made to support FreeBSD, etc.) Anyways, it's nice being able to sync the Visor without having to log in or out... --=20 Rich Neswold efax: 1.240.536.7092 web: www.enteract.com/~rneswold/ --U+BazGySraz5kW0T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6jalwZmE+i9FKxdwRApeOAKCULe8LCRtc0ZoGYij1XXKsLAILtACcDwLo e5IbPwMZeqgpu1CcKWjiwG0= =JS1p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U+BazGySraz5kW0T-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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