From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 22:02:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BDB16A407 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:02:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4E243D64 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GZx0X-0005jF-C6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:01:58 +0200 Received: from c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.85.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:01:57 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:01:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:00:54 -0400 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <20061017210740.GB9251@dfwdamian.vail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060804) In-Reply-To: <20061017210740.GB9251@dfwdamian.vail> Sender: news Subject: Re: Problems with USB Palm sync X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:02:43 -0000 Damian Wiest wrote: > 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. >> > I've had success syncing my Palm OS based phone (SPH-i500 FWIW) to my > laptop using jpilot with a USB connection. Glad to hear it works for someone! What FreeBSD are you using? I'm using 6.1 (via PC-BSD 1.2). > Do you have permissions to access /dev/ugen0? Yes, due to the "attach" command, which I added myself after much googling. It gives me: -- 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.