Re: Palm or equalient supported by FreeBSD

Simon Dick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:17, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 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. 

Serial and network syncs aren't a problem, it's USB that caused problems
unfortunately (so far via wifi I've synced a handera 330 and TH55, my
T-C arrives soon ;)

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