On Friday 15 April 2005 19:15, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Well, we do have a HOWTO-section on freebsd.kde.org - if you'd care to > write up a guide from your experiences, we'll happily add it to the site. > Plain text and perhaps a few screenshots is enough, we can do the html > markup for you.
This is a first draft: PALM, USB and KPilot HOWTO This howto will try to help you set up KPilot to access you Palm-device through the USB-port. PREREQUISITES You need to have <a href="http://www.freshports.org/deskutils/kdepim3/";>KDE PIM</a> installed. CONFIGURING YOUR KERNEL On FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE you need to compile the kernel with the uvisor and ucom devices. So insert the following 2 lines into your kernel-config and rebuild/install your new kernel: device uvisor device ucom See <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html";>Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel</a> in the FreeBSD Handbook. IDENTIFYING YOUR PALM-DEVICE Next step is to get some identity-data (product, vendor, release) from you Palm-device. So open a terminal-window and su/log in as root. Attach the Palm-device to the USB-port, push the "HotSync"-button on the device and type: #usbdevs -v This should reveal a line like this: port 2 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, Palm Handheld(0x0070), Palm, Inc.(0x0830), rev 1.00 This output is for a Palm Zire and translates into: product 0x0070 vendor 0x0830 release 0x0100 (ie. rev 1.00) CONFIGURING /etc/usbd.conf You need to edit /etc/usbd.conf. Near the end of the file and before the line 'device "USB device"' insert the following lines: device "Palm Zire" devname "ucom[0-9]+" vendor 0x0830 product 0x0070 release 0x0100 attach "rm -f /dev/pilot; \ chmod 666 /dev/${DEVNAME}; \ ln -s /dev/${DEVNAME} /dev/pilot" detach "rm -f /dev/pilot" Remember to change the vendor, product and release ID-numbers with the ID-numbers you found above, and the device-name to reflect the name of your Palm-device. NOTE: I had issues with the line-breaks in the 'attach' command, so I had to remove the '\' and put it all on one line before usbd could handle it. NOTE: You might be able to omit the 'release 0x0100' part entirely. CONFIGURING KPilot Just follow the <a href="help:/kpilot/index.html">KPilot User's Guide</a>. _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
