From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 16 15:13:27 2003 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 5CFA737B401 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu (srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu [164.107.3.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4077E43F75 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: (qmail 7198 invoked by uid 506); 16 Feb 2003 23:35:29 -0000 Received: from mistry.7@osu.edu by srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu by uid 503 with qmail-scanner-1.14 ( Clear:. Processed in 0.02362 secs); 16 Feb 2003 23:35:29 -0000 Received: from rdrt-164-107-205-94.resnet.ohio-state.edu (HELO bigguy.am-productions.biz) (164.107.205.94) by srv2.resnet.ohio-state.edu with SMTP; 16 Feb 2003 23:35:29 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Anish Mistry To: Lin Jianfong Subject: Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:12:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302161812.48937.mistry.7@osu.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You may want to talk with the folks at pilot-link.org. They normally han= g out=20 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, >=20 > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the U= SB=20 > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the= =20 > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. >=20 > The problems : > - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB a= nd=20 > MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried synci= ng,=20 > the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not t= he=20 > other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot= and=20 > palm to communicate at 9600bps. >=20 > - 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= ed=20 > success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is still E= MPTY.=20 > pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. >=20 > I used jpilot version 0.99.4, and pilot-link is 0.11.7. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I followed the instructions on www.geekhome.net/palm.html to set up my = USB=20 > port and kernel. >=20 > Here's my setup : >=20 > in kernel config file : > device uhci > device usb > device ucom > device uvisor >=20 > in etc/usbd.conf : > device "Palm Handheld" > =09devname "ucom0" > =09vendor 0x0830 > =09product 0x0040 > =09release 0x0100 >=20 > initialized the unit with username and id using "% install-user -p...". >=20 > 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 >=20 > when "hotsync" button is pushed : > ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3 >=20 > Anyone has better experience, and any idea what I'm missing here ? >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* =20 > http://join.msn.com/?page=3Dfeatures/junkmail >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 --=20 Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message