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Date:      Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:17:28 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Palm or equalient supported by FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <418A39F8.2080409@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <1099575367.52267.10.camel@laptop.irrelevant.org>
References:  <20041104110413.GA13307@totem.fix.no> <20041104112634.GA14296@laverenz.de> <20041104114156.GB43303@warning.this.domain.does.not-exist.de> <20041104125320.GA16749@totem.fix.no> <1099575367.52267.10.camel@laptop.irrelevant.org>

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Simon Dick wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:53, Espen Tagestad wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:41:56PM +0100, Hank Hampel wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi everybody!
>>>
>>>On (041104), Uwe Laverenz wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>that support syncronizing with FreeBSD? I currently have a Palm Tungsten
>>>>>T, but I've given up trying to get it work under FreeBSD. I need
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Our palms are connected via serial cable, not USB, is USB the reason
>>>>for your problems?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Even USB connections shouldn't be a problem any more.
>>>
>>>I currently use a Zire21 with an USB cable to connect to my
>>>4.10-stable system. I prefer using jpilot but this is merely advocacy.
>>>
>>>You just have to use the uvisor kernel module (kldload uvisor) which
>>>should automagically bring up the ucom module (if not just load this
>>>one too).
>>>
>>>I just checked the uvisor module and it seems to know something about
>>>Palms Tungsten T series as the following line suggests (taken from
>>>/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uvisor.c line 220):
>>>        {{ USB_VENDOR_PALM, USB_PRODUCT_PALM_TUNGSTEN_T }, PALM4 },
>>>      
>>>
>>I know this, the uvisor and ucom devices are compiled into the kernel.
>>But still, as I pointed out on my last mail, I get the following
>>message:
>>
>>ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
>>ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
>>ucom0: init failed, TIMEOUT
>>device_probe_and_attach: ucom0 attach returned 6
>>uhub0: port 1, set config at addr 2 failed
>>uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1
>>    
>>
>
>This only happens with some Palms, mostly the Sony ones, but I seem to
>rememebr the Tungsten T didn't work either, the T3 does work and so do
>various others though.
>  
>

I have a Tungsten C that I sync over wireless via network to jpilot in 
FreeBSD 5.3.  Works like a charm. 

Eric




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