CentOS - Aug 2006 - CentOS vs. Nokia Phones

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I have been trying to access my Nokia 6230 using a DKU-2 data cable from
CentOS, with some weird results.

Interesting thing is that I have VMWare installed on this machine and, if
I install the Nokia Suite inside it, it can access the phone without
problems. So all hardware related parts are working.

Anyway, kernel load the cdc_acm module, and gives me /dev/ttyACM0.
Accessing this tty (cu -l, minicom, take your pick), I can issue
AT commands and get responses. So far so good.

But then I try to access it using some software (gnokii, obex, gammu),
it simply won't work.

Trying to use usbserial instead of cdc_acm gives exactly the same
result.

Does anyone has any better experience with this setup ?

TIA,

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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:52:36PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa
wrote:
> I have been trying to access my Nokia 6230 using a DKU-2 data cable from
> CentOS, with some weird results.
(...)
> Does anyone has any better experience with this setup ?
I just found the answer here.
It takes a combination of obexftp (recompiled, Dag's won't work, because
it has no dku2libusb support) for file transfer and gnokii (using a nonstandard
nokia_sku2) driver for information.

Freaking 6230 doesn't provide FBUS support, so things get a bit complicated.

Anyway, I'm now able to upload and download files.

For historical reference, this is the best place to start when
researching this:

http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/DKU2


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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to access my Nokia 6230 using a DKU-2 data cable from
> CentOS, with some weird results.
I fought this battle on a Fedora Core system (even to the point of 
making a standalone kernel module out of gnokii's DKU2 support), and let 
me tell you -- in the end, it's not worth it and you don't get a lot of 
features.(*)

My personal recommendation is to buy a cheap Bluetooth USB dongle ($15 
Belkin works great) and use that instead, along with "gammu":

   http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

My 6230(b) works perfectly over BT with gammu, full filesystem 
management, contacts/sms/etc. backup and restore, modem use - all that 
and a bag of chips. I use a Symbian device these days, but I can't 
imagine the 6230 support has been broken.

$0.02 USD
-te

(*) The beginnings of some of my (mis)adventures of DKU2:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.gammu/2114/focus=2114

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