PALM and USB?

[fbsd-questions at d.sparks.net]

After spending all afternoon struggling with google, usbdevs, usbd, and a
palm zire I've got to ask: Has anyone got a palm syncing over USB?

I was ready to buy a new palm that synced over a serial port, but it
doesn't appear they make them.

Google led me to lots of people having problems, and some pretty twisted
"solutions".  usbd recognizes the palm when I start it with usbd -vvv -d:

usbd: device-attach event at 1.492599000, OHCI root hub, CMDTECH:
  vndr=0x0000 prdct=0x0000 rlse=0x0100 clss=0x0009 subclss=0x0000
prtcl=0x0000
  device names: uhub0
usbd: Found action 'USB device' for OHCI root hub, CMDTECH at uhub0
usbd: action 0: USB device
usbd: Setting DEVNAME='uhub0'
usbd: doing discovery on /dev/usb0
usbd: doing discovery on /dev/usb0
usbd: processing event queue on /dev/usb
usbd: device-attach event at 1069399540.774398000, Palm Handheld, Palm,
Inc.:
  vndr=0x0830 prdct=0x0070 rlse=0x0100 clss=0x0000 subclss=0x0000
prtcl=0x0000
  device names: ucom0
usbd: Found action 'USB device' for Palm Handheld, Palm, Inc. at ucom0
usbd: action 0: USB device
usbd: Setting DEVNAME='ucom0'
usbd: doing timeout discovery on /dev/usb0
usbd: processing event queue due to timeout on /dev/usb
                                                                                

... but gpilotd just doesn't work:

new:notes$ /usr/X11R6/libexec/gpilotd
gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.10 starting...
gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version 0.11.7
gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA] [Network]
gpilotd-Message: Activating CORBA server
gpilotd-Message: bonobo_activation_active_server_register = 0
 
gpilotd-ERROR **: file gpilotd.c: line 938 (monitor_channel): should not
be reached
aborting...


Clues very much appreciated.

--- David