freebsd stable - Jan 2006 - ucom.ko and palm pilot m500

Hello List,

I own an old palm pilot -- a m500 model -- and have the following problem when 
I try to sync under 6-STABLE.

Whenever I pressed the HotSync-Button of that device -- connected to my 
6-STABLE box via a USB cable, the pilot was recognized as a ugen0 device.  
Using the pilot-xfer program then failed. After some investigation on 
pilot-link.org I learned, that Palm devices work with FreeBSD over USB only 
with the ucom driver (while for those of Handspring, the generic ugen driver 
is sufficient). -- Well, I made sure, that ucom.ko was loaded, but the device 
was still detected by the ugen.ko-module instead.  Even after unloading the 
generic driver, the ucom driver still wasn't able to detect the palm pilot.
Just a few minutes ago, I cvsuped the kernel sources and rebuilt and installed 
the kernel along with the modules (and rebooted), but it still doesn't work.

Am I the only one with that problem (and such an old pilot)? -- I have 
searched the FreeBSD documentation, pilot-link docu, etc.. but didn't find 
anything.

Is it possible to somehow force the ucom driver to "accept" the pilot,
or give
him some hints?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
bye
  Carsten

Carsten "CC" Wald wrote to <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> on Fri,
6 Jan 2006 16:43:15 +0000:

CCW> I own an old palm pilot -- a m500 model -- and have the following
CCW> problem when I try to sync under 6-STABLE.

CCW> Whenever I pressed the HotSync-Button of that device -- connected to my
CCW> 6-STABLE box via a USB cable, the pilot was recognized as a ugen0
CCW> device.  

man uvisor

-- 
With best regards, Gleb Kozyrev.