Special shout out to Chris Fey who in a post back in May of 2008 mentioned a link I had found ..
I'm quite interested now in getting barry to work on OpenBSD, considering it is what I use and support, and after having blackberries for over a year my wife and I managed to both within a month come into a scenario where the m$ desktop manager is necessary to restore the software from scratch and we get to pray that it backs up the contact/calendar/etc properly. Mine didn't go so hot a few weeks ago, and I lost everything. Now we get to do the same with my wife's tonight. Suffice it to say, it is going to work one way or another, because we can't afford another loss like this again.. You never quite got your answers back then, Chris, regarding the finer points of userland vs kernel abstraction in OpenBSD. Basically, if it requires privileges, its better in the kernel, and if it is following a standard interface api, its better in the kernel. If the userland apps require a special protocol its better in userland. pppoe strattles this fence quite thoroughly as there are both kernel and userland implenentations. Based on everything I've seen wrt blackberry and barry etc I believe long term it would be best if OpenBSD could just provide a serial connection and umass and perhaps another special interface for talking to the blackberry. Does barry use the serial connection to do calendar/phonenumber/etc stuff or does it require some alternate communication mechanism? I've been able to get online with OpenBSD using bluetooth since OpenBSD does not presently support the serial like interface. In the meantime, disabling umass on the blackberry and/or specifically compiling an OpenBSD kernel to not recognize the blackberry as anything other than ugen and/or disabling uberry(4) and umass(4) should at the very least make barry a viable tool on OpenBSD. Have you heard of anyone making a port of barry to OpenBSD? I'll do it, I just don't want to duplicate any work. Thanks, -- Todd Fries .. t...@fries.net _____________________________________________ | \ 1.636.410.0632 (voice) | Free Daemon Consulting, LLC \ 1.405.227.9094 (voice) | http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com \ 1.866.792.3418 (FAX) | "..in support of free software solutions." \ 250797 (FWD) | \ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
