From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 12 11:21:56 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 98FB437B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BA7843EA3 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:21:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: Bryan Liesner Subject: Re: USB MFC (ucom, uvisor) From: Dan Pelleg Date: 12 Oct 2002 14:20:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20021012013943.W81092-100000@patrocles.silby.com> Message-ID: Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 This is a followup, for the archives, on a thread from August 2002: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=583298+585663+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-stable/20020825.freebsd-stable With the kind help of the OP, here are the steps to make the visor connect to jpilot, pilot-xfer and friends, over USB: Compile your kernel with these in the USB section: # USB com devices device uvisor device ucom there's inconclusive evidence you want to make sure ohci is *not* in there. cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV ucom0 Now, here's the tricky part: > The trick is to hit the hotsync button _first_, then you'll have a > configured ucom0 device. Before it times out, run pilot-xfer - it > should work fine. FWIW, it only seems to work with uhci hardware. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message