Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

[Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aniruddha [mailto:mailing_list at planet.nl]
>Sent: 09 March 2007 15:32
>To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD
>
>
>Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote:
>> You may want to check out devfs.rules(5) for changing permissions on 
>> hotplug devices.
>> That said, I do use a similar entry in usbd.conf to spawn 
>pppd when I connect my Tungsten E. With that I find I need to 
>add a "sleep 2;" to the beginning of the 'attach' line or the 
>following command fails because the device nodes aren't set up 
>quickly enough.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Peter Harrison 
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>
>Thanks for your help :-) . You mean like this?
>
>device "Palm"
>       devname  "ucom[0-9]*"
>       sleep 2; attach "chmod 0666 /dev/ucom* /dev/ttyU* /dev/cuaU*"/
>
>


Sorry, that's me not making myself clear.

I mean like this:

device "Palm"
	devname "ucom[0-9]*"
	attach "sleep 2; chmod 0666 /dev/ttyU*"

But like I said, devfs.rules is really designed for this kind of thing.


HTH.


Peter Harrison.





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