From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 4:19:13 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 04:19:10 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A83C37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 04:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 293 invoked by uid 100); 6 Jan 2001 12:19:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14935.3383.231292.498482@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:19:03 -0600 (CST) To: Stefan Molnar Cc: questions@freebsd.org, pcasidy@casidy.com Subject: Re: Visor/USB - success? In-Reply-To: <79667471@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Molnar types: > If I remember correctly. /dev/ugen0 is not for use like this. > Basicly the the drivers sees something there, if supported it will > give it a device like /dev/(umodem,ums,umass). All other devices > not known will fall under ugen. It does not mean it is useable. Actually, ugen is usable. It provides a "generic" usb interface, that doesn't look like anything but a usb port. To use it, an application *must* know that it is talking to some device plugged into a usb port, and can't treat it as a parallel device (as lpd does in talking to ulpt), a disk drive (which is what umass provides), etc. Coldsync claims to be such an application; the documentation specifically says to use /dev/ugen0. That it's failing in this way indicates there's a bug in the device driver (actually, crashing the system as a normal user is a bug, even if what you're trying shouldn't work). Fixing this problem probably requires kernel-level debugging. If someone with a USB-capable Palm device wants to start on that, instructions can be found at . If someone wants to give me a USB cradle for my Palm V, I'll look into it :-). On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Philippe CASIDY wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:38:03 +0100, Niall Smart wrote : > > > > > >Is anyone successfullying sync'ing their Visor using a USB > > >cradle? I get a kernel panic with -stable when using coldsync > > >1.4.6 > > > > I have just tried to sync my Visor/USB with 4.2 -stable and all I got > > was a reboot of the machine! > > > > I did : > > - chmod 666 /dev/ugen0 to be able to use it as a simple user > > - exit from root user > > - insertion of the Visor > > - press the hotsync button (to configure /dev/ugen0 ) > > - call coldsync > > - freeze > > - automatic reboot with no shutdown > > > > Do you manage to make it worked since? > > > > Thanks > > > > Phil. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message