Palm Tungsten E2

[Eric Anderson]

Joseph Olatt wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:03:13PM +0200, Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote:
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>>On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 08:21:56AM -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:26:56PM +0200, Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote:
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>>>>okay, after rebuilding kernel i was able to connect with JPilot and see some
>>>>data. Now I have questions - how can i upload, for example, PDF document or
>>>>MP3 file?
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>>>>
>>>I believe you can convert your mp3 files to .pdb files using the "par"
>>>utility (http://handhelds.freshmeat.net/projects/parpdb/).
>>>
>>>Once you convert them to a .pdb, they can be uploaded onto your palm
>>>using the "pilot-xfer" command line program (/usr/ports/palm/pilot-link).
>>>      
>>>
>>Well....
>>pilot-xfer -p /dev/ucom0 -i bessonnica.pdb 
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>>Listening to port: /dev/ucom0
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>>Please press the HotSync button now... Connected
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>>Installing bessonnica.pdb                     failed.
>>Time elapsed: 0:00:16
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>
>Is it possible that permissions on /dev/ucom0 is causing the failure?
>It could be that you as a non-root user is not being able to write to 
>/dev/ucom0. /dev/ucom0 is created when you press the HotSync button 
>(on 5.x and above).
>
>I've had to add the following lines to /etc/devd.conf to get the
>permissions right.
>
>attach 100 {
>        device-name "ucom0";
>        action "chmod 666 /dev/ucom0";
>};
>
>Alternatively, you can "chmod 0666 /dev/ucom0" after you press the
>HotSync button before running pilot-xfer or, you can run pilot-xfer as
>root.
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>

The device name on more recent versions of FreeBSD (6.0 and up for 
certain) is /dev/cuaU0 probably.

Eric



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