Help w/ palm pilot infrared hotsync.

I'm looking for information/help getting my world set up such that I
can hotsync my Palm Pilot  to my laptop.

Palm:  Palm Vx OS v3.3

Laptop:  Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE

OS: FreeBSD 4.7p3

I'm currently synching over a serial port using gpilotd from ports:

  gnomepilot-0.1.71
  gnomepilot-conduits-0.9
  pilot-link-0.11.7_1

and I've been messing about with

  birda-1.00

So far, I've built a kernel that {mis,}recognizes the IrDA device on
IO_COM3 and irq 10, although it claimes it's "type 16550A", which
doesn't sound too happy.

  sio1 at port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 10 on isa0
  sio1: type 16550A

I've tried a couple of variations on commands that I've found in the
birda man pages (e.g. irs, irobex), w/out any luck.  The thing is, I'm
not even sure what's going on.

I've found some threads from July 2000 in the netbsd's kernel-tech
mailing list that talk about IrDA, but it's not clear what happened
and/or how relevant it is.

So, can anyone out there in -mobile land comment on:

  - how do I make hotsynching work in this situation?

ok, that's a little broad, so:

  - how should a laptop's irda device show up in dmesg?  sio or???

  - are the various irda protocol things somewhere in the kernel, or
    do they all happen up in userland (e.g. birda)?

  - when gpilotd claims to be able to support IrDA, how much help does
    it need from the kernel, or birda, or???

  - Is my palmOS v. 3.3 current enough for this all to work, or do I
    need something newer (e.g. an update, or the 4-ish upgrade)?

  - Any pointers on how I might debug the situation?

g.

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