Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:40:28 -0500 From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> To: Lin Jianfong <ljfong@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer Message-ID: <20030217184028.GA83923@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <F97XFaSTGUqyYFzrc5k000171c8@hotmail.com> References: <F97XFaSTGUqyYFzrc5k000171c8@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Lin Jianfong wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. > > The problems : > - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB and > MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried syncing, > the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not the > other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot and > palm to communicate at 9600bps. > > - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing "% > pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup", the process will go thru, > it reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself > reported success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is > still EMPTY. pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. > To make a long story short, you're better off getting a serial cable/cradle for now. USB does not work with pilot-link in FreeBSD. My problem sounds similar to yours. It would only see one DB on the Palm and then finish the hoysynch. When I did pilot-xfer -l it would only list one of my applications DBs and then say it finished sucessfully. Using pilot-link with jpilot and a serial cable (or a cradle) works great, although I can't seem to make it go any 9600bps, or maybe I'm impatient :) Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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