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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:12:48 -0500
From:      Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To:        Lin Jianfong <ljfong@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
Message-ID:  <200302161812.48937.mistry.7@osu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <F97XFaSTGUqyYFzrc5k000171c8@hotmail.com>
References:  <F97XFaSTGUqyYFzrc5k000171c8@hotmail.com>

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You may want to talk with the folks at pilot-link.org.  They normally han=
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in irc.pilot-link.org in the #pilot-link channel.  They are still having=20
issues with FreeBSD and USB.

On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:33 pm, Lin Jianfong wrote:
> Hi,
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> I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the U=
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> cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the=
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> point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer.
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> The problems :
> - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB a=
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> MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried synci=
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> the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not t=
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> other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot=
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> palm to communicate at 9600bps.
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> - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing  "%=20
> pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup", the process will go thr=
u, it=20
> reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself report=
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> success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is still E=
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> pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error.
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> I used jpilot version 0.99.4, and pilot-link is 0.11.7.
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> I can install applications on the palm using jpilot no problem, just ca=
n't=20
> make a full backup of my data on it. I have also tried coldsync, and gp=
ilot,=20
> coldsync simply didn't work for I/O error, gpilot just coredumped=20
> repeatedly.
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> I followed the instructions on www.geekhome.net/palm.html to set up my =
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> port and kernel.
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> Here's my setup :
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> in kernel config file :
> device uhci
> device usb
> device ucom
> device uvisor
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> in etc/usbd.conf :
> device "Palm Handheld"
> =09devname "ucom0"
> =09vendor 0x0830
> =09product 0x0040
> =09release 0x0100
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> initialized the unit with username and id using "% install-user -p...".
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> in /dev :
> crw-rw-rw-  1 uucp  dialer  138, 128 Feb 15 20:59 ucom
> crw-rw-rw-  1 uucp  dialer  138, 128 Feb 16 05:53 ucom0
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> when "hotsync" button is pushed :
> ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3
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> Anyone has better experience, and any idea what I'm missing here ?
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