Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:07:40 -0500 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with USB Palm sync Message-ID: <20061017210740.GB9251@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <eh3eh6$aag$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <eh3eh6$aag$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:29:49PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Has anyone had any luck using pilot-link to sync JPilot to a Palm > device via the USB? I'm trying to sync my Handspring Visor and it just > doesn't seem to be noticing it. I have the following in my > /dev/usbd.conf file: > > device "Handspring Visor" > devname "ugen[0-9]+" > vendor 0x082d > product 0x0100 > release 0x0100 > attach "chmod 0666 /dev/ugen*" > > as per the code that was in there for the coldsync. When I press the > sync button on the cradle, these devices show up: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 0, 181 Oct 17 13:45 /dev/ugen0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 0, 182 Oct 17 13:45 /dev/ugen0.1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 0, 183 Oct 17 13:45 /dev/ugen0.2 > > And the following shows up in my dmesg: > > ugen0: Handspring Inc Handspring Visor, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 5 > ugen0: at uhub6 port 4 (addr 5) disconnected > All threads purged from ugen0.2 > All threads purged from ugen0.1 > All threads purged from ugen0 > ugen0: detached > > But the pilot-link command fails immediately: > > $ pilot-xfer -p /dev/ugen0 -l > Unable to bind to port: /dev/ugen0 > Please use --help for more information > > Any ideas? I've googled all over the place, but I only see similiar > questions. And the FreeBSD.README on the pilot-link web site seems to > be misleading at best. > > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) > Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: > http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ > > UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. I've had success syncing my Palm OS based phone (SPH-i500 FWIW) to my laptop using jpilot with a USB connection. Do you have permissions to access /dev/ugen0? -Damian
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