Problems with USB Palm sync

[Damian Wiest]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:29:49PM -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck using pilot-link to sync JPilot to a Palm
> device via the USB? I'm trying to sync my Handspring Visor and it just
> doesn't seem to be noticing it. I have the following in my
> /dev/usbd.conf file:
> 
> device "Handspring Visor"
>         devname "ugen[0-9]+"
>         vendor  0x082d
>         product 0x0100
>         release 0x0100
> 	attach "chmod 0666 /dev/ugen*"
> 
> as per the code that was in there for the coldsync.  When I press the
> sync button on the cradle, these devices show up:
> 
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0, 181 Oct 17 13:45 /dev/ugen0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0, 182 Oct 17 13:45 /dev/ugen0.1
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0, 183 Oct 17 13:45 /dev/ugen0.2
> 
> And the following shows up in my dmesg:
> 
> ugen0: Handspring Inc Handspring Visor, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 5
> ugen0: at uhub6 port 4 (addr 5) disconnected
> All threads purged from ugen0.2
> All threads purged from ugen0.1
> All threads purged from ugen0
> ugen0: detached
> 
> But the pilot-link command fails immediately:
> 
> $ pilot-xfer -p /dev/ugen0 -l
>    Unable to bind to port: /dev/ugen0
>    Please use --help for more information
> 
> Any ideas? I've googled all over the place, but I only see similiar
> questions. And the FreeBSD.README on the pilot-link web site seems to
> be misleading at best.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog.org)
> Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
>     http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
> 
> UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.

I've had success syncing my Palm OS based phone (SPH-i500 FWIW) to my
laptop using jpilot with a USB connection.

Do you have permissions to access /dev/ugen0?

-Damian