Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

[Vince]

Aniruddha wrote:
> Chris Slothouber wrote:
>> Check out /etc/defaults/devfs.rules
>>
>>
> Thanks at least now I found devfs.rules :-) . I adjusted it 
> accordingly (and /etc/rc.conf) but still my Palm refuses to sync. 
> Maybe this error message reveals something:
>
> # /etc/rc.d/devfs restart
> /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING: devfs_set_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset
> number
> /etc/rc.d/devfs: WARNING: devfs_apply_ruleset: you must specify a ruleset
>
>
> *Part of devfs.rules which I edited:*
> # Devices typically needed to support logged-in users.
> # Requires: devfsrules_hide_all
> #
> [devfsrules_unhide_login=3]
> add path 'ptyp*' unhide
> add path 'ptyq*' unhide
> add path 'ptyr*' unhide
> add path 'ptys*' unhide
> add path 'ptyP*' unhide
> add path 'ptyQ*' unhide
> add path 'ptyR*' unhide
> add path 'ptyS*' unhide
> add path 'ttyp*' unhide
> add path 'ttyq*' unhide
> add path 'ttyr*' unhide
> add path 'ttys*' unhide
> add path 'ttyP*' unhide
> add path 'ttyQ*' unhide
> add path 'ttyR*' unhide
> add path 'ttyS*' unhide
> add path fd unhide
> add path 'fd/*' unhide
> add path stdin unhide
> add path stdout unhide
> add path stderr unhide
> add path 'ttyU*' mode 0666
> *
> My changes to /etc/rc.conf*
> # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Mar  8 17:55:42 2007
> # Created: Thu Mar  8 17:55:42 2007
> # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
> # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> hostname="freebsd.lan"
> ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
> inetd_enable="NO"
> ipv6_enable="YES"
> keymap="us.iso"
> linux_enable="YES"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> usbd_enable="YES"
> devfs_system_ruleset="system"
>
I think you misunderstood. /etc/defaults/devfs  contains the defaults.
you should remove the changes you made from there and create a new 
/etc/devfs.rules
with the contents i specified.


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