Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
Yeah, I have been considering to get serial cable/cradle for a little bit, I did even more research on the web, seems like people are having widely different experience in doing this. Some reported to be able to sync successfully, at least the guy who wrote the guide at www.geekhome.net/palm.html. I actually even set it to 1200bps, hehe, cause my hunch told me jpilot and the palm unit are actually talking at different speed so I tried to lower the speed as much as possible, I don't care if it's a bit slow as long as it works, alas, that didn't work. Anyways, glad to know I'm not alone :) From: Jason Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lin Jianfong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:40:28 -0500 On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Lin Jianfong wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. > > The problems : > - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB and > MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried syncing, > the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not the > other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot and > palm to communicate at 9600bps. > > - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing "% > pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup", the process will go thru, > it reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself > reported success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is > still EMPTY. pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. > To make a long story short, you're better off getting a serial cable/cradle for now. USB does not work with pilot-link in FreeBSD. My problem sounds similar to yours. It would only see one DB on the Palm and then finish the hoysynch. When I did pilot-xfer -l it would only list one of my applications DBs and then say it finished sucessfully. Using pilot-link with jpilot and a serial cable (or a cradle) works great, although I can't seem to make it go any 9600bps, or maybe I'm impatient :) Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Lin Jianfong wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. > > The problems : > - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB and > MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried syncing, > the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not the > other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot and > palm to communicate at 9600bps. > > - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing "% > pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup", the process will go thru, > it reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself > reported success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is > still EMPTY. pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. > To make a long story short, you're better off getting a serial cable/cradle for now. USB does not work with pilot-link in FreeBSD. My problem sounds similar to yours. It would only see one DB on the Palm and then finish the hoysynch. When I did pilot-xfer -l it would only list one of my applications DBs and then say it finished sucessfully. Using pilot-link with jpilot and a serial cable (or a cradle) works great, although I can't seem to make it go any 9600bps, or maybe I'm impatient :) Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
Oh well, I guess I have to resort to some MS Windows machine and install the software from Palm itself, sigh lol. Thanks for the reply, I mainly want to know if my palm unit is screwed. From: Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lin Jianfong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:22:33 +0100 On Sunday 16 February 2003 23:33, Lin Jianfong wrote: > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. Forget it, pilot-link doesn't work under FreeBSD+USB. I'm having the same issues with a Palm m505 and the pilot-link guys just told me it does not work yet (I do hope that they're working on it though). You can try to contact the coldsync developers, I got in touch with one who told me the latest CVS version was supposed to work (but it didn't for me at the time) --> http://www.coldsync.org/ Good luck... and if you can make your device work in any way, please post how you did it on this list. Thanks. Antoine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
On Sunday 16 February 2003 23:33, Lin Jianfong wrote: > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. Forget it, pilot-link doesn't work under FreeBSD+USB. I'm having the same issues with a Palm m505 and the pilot-link guys just told me it does not work yet (I do hope that they're working on it though). You can try to contact the coldsync developers, I got in touch with one who told me the latest CVS version was supposed to work (but it didn't for me at the time) --> http://www.coldsync.org/ Good luck... and if you can make your device work in any way, please post how you did it on this list. Thanks. Antoine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Problem syncing palm m125 w/ jpilot and pilot-xfer
You may want to talk with the folks at pilot-link.org. They normally hang out in irc.pilot-link.org in the #pilot-link channel. They are still having issues with FreeBSD and USB. On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:33 pm, Lin Jianfong wrote: > Hi, > > I just bought a Palm m125 model recently and tried to sync it via the USB > cradle/cable on my fbsd 4.7R box. I got the process going all up to the > point when trying to backup and sync using jpilot and pilot-xfer. > > The problems : > - For some reason, jpilot is having trouble reading AddressDB, ToDoDB and > MemoDB off my palm. It can read DateBookDB no problem. If I tried syncing, > the process will go thru and jpilot will sync only DateBook's but not the > other 3 apps' database. Same thing when doing backup. I set both jpilot and > palm to communicate at 9600bps. > > - For pilot-xfer, pretty much the same problem, when I tried doing "% > pilot-xfer -p /dev/pilot -b $HOME/palm_backup", the process will go thru, it > reported succeeded in reading the RAM from Palm, and Palm itself reported > success in synchronizing but...afterwards, $HOME/palm_backup is still EMPTY. > pilot-xfer just didn't bother to report any error. > > I used jpilot version 0.99.4, and pilot-link is 0.11.7. > > I can install applications on the palm using jpilot no problem, just can't > make a full backup of my data on it. I have also tried coldsync, and gpilot, > coldsync simply didn't work for I/O error, gpilot just coredumped > repeatedly. > > I followed the instructions on www.geekhome.net/palm.html to set up my USB > port and kernel. > > Here's my setup : > > in kernel config file : > device uhci > device usb > device ucom > device uvisor > > in etc/usbd.conf : > device "Palm Handheld" > devname "ucom0" > vendor 0x0830 > product 0x0040 > release 0x0100 > > initialized the unit with username and id using "% install-user -p...". > > in /dev : > crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp dialer 138, 128 Feb 15 20:59 ucom > crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp dialer 138, 128 Feb 16 05:53 ucom0 > > when "hotsync" button is pushed : > ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3 > > Anyone has better experience, and any idea what I'm missing here ? > > > > > > _ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
