Palm or equalient supported by FreeBSD
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Thu Nov 4 06:17:33 PST 2004
Simon Dick wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:53, Espen Tagestad wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:41:56PM +0100, Hank Hampel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi everybody!
>>>
>>>On (041104), Uwe Laverenz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>that support syncronizing with FreeBSD? I currently have a Palm Tungsten
>>>>>T, but I've given up trying to get it work under FreeBSD. I need
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Our palms are connected via serial cable, not USB, is USB the reason
>>>>for your problems?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Even USB connections shouldn't be a problem any more.
>>>
>>>I currently use a Zire21 with an USB cable to connect to my
>>>4.10-stable system. I prefer using jpilot but this is merely advocacy.
>>>
>>>You just have to use the uvisor kernel module (kldload uvisor) which
>>>should automagically bring up the ucom module (if not just load this
>>>one too).
>>>
>>>I just checked the uvisor module and it seems to know something about
>>>Palms Tungsten T series as the following line suggests (taken from
>>>/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/uvisor.c line 220):
>>> {{ USB_VENDOR_PALM, USB_PRODUCT_PALM_TUNGSTEN_T }, PALM4 },
>>>
>>>
>>I know this, the uvisor and ucom devices are compiled into the kernel.
>>But still, as I pointed out on my last mail, I get the following
>>message:
>>
>>ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
>>ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2
>>ucom0: init failed, TIMEOUT
>>device_probe_and_attach: ucom0 attach returned 6
>>uhub0: port 1, set config at addr 2 failed
>>uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1
>>
>>
>
>This only happens with some Palms, mostly the Sony ones, but I seem to
>rememebr the Tungsten T didn't work either, the T3 does work and so do
>various others though.
>
>
I have a Tungsten C that I sync over wireless via network to jpilot in
FreeBSD 5.3. Works like a charm.
Eric
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