Android phone and FreeBSD 8.1

[Fernando Apesteguía]

2010/12/28 Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org>:
> 2010/12/28 Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>:
>> 2010/12/28 Justin V. <vic at yeaguy.com>:
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>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:
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>>>> 2010/12/28 Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org>:
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>>>>> 2010/12/28 Fernando Apestegu?a <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>:
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>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I bought a GeeksPhone One[1]. It uses Android 2.2.1. I'm trying to get
>>>>>> FreeBDS recognize the phone.
>>>>>> When I plug it to the USB port and activate the "Storage" option, this
>>>>>> is what dmesg reports:
>>>>>>
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>>>>> It's a wild guess but if you have Gnome installed, try disabling HAL
>>>>> (after you are in your Gnome desktop) before you plug-in the telephone
>>>>> and before you press the activate usb mass storage option on the
>>>>> droid.
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>>>> No luck :S
>>>>
>>>> I rebooted with HAL disabled without bringing Gnome up and I still get
>>>> the same error
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
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>>> Did you try Disk Drive on the phone and mount_msdosfs as root?
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>> Yes. After I plug the phone, I am asked whether I want to enable
>> "Storage mode". I say yes, the system tries to recognize the phone and
>> creates and immediately removes da4. I can't use mount_msdosfs if the
>> node is not present.
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> That is very similar to the HAL problem I started having with my
> external HDs, that's whay I suspected you could be having the same
> issue. What I do is simply disable HAL by just running the rc.d
> script, plugin the drive, mount and the start HAL again.

OK, just tried that but it didn't work. I also tried disabling HAL during boot
int rc.conf and rebooting but the same effect persists: it tries to create the
da4 node but refuses. (sigh...)

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