Re: FC3, Nokia 6230i, DKU-2 USB

[Christopher Kemp]

On 2005.06.11 16:02 Del wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of notes on getting gnokii 0.6.7 running on Fedora Core 3 with a
> Nokia 6230i and a DKU2 USB cable.  Kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3.
>
> I have the phone working fine talking USB to the kernel without gnokii.
> e.g. I was able to copy a bunch of files to and from the MMC card by 
> using
> the KDE file manager, as hald noticed that it was a USB storage device, 
> when
> I put the phone into data storage mode.
>
> * The instructions in Docs/README-DK2 appear to be incorrect for the 
> driver
> for the 2.6 kernel.  It appears that instead of patching the kernel 
> sources,
> the driver file there is supposed to be compiled using:
>
> make ; make install

Good point, thanks.

> Also it appears that the required usb-serial.h is not in the kernel 
> headers
> set shipped with Fedora Core 3.  I had to find a set of kernel sources 
> and
> copy the usb-serial.h file from there, and put it into the 
> patches/kernel_2.6
> before make would work.

Hmm

> * The driver compiles OK but doesn't seem to work.  When I plug the 
> phone in
> to the USB port, however, another driver (cdc-acm) grabs it and sees the 
> phone,
> as well as creates a /dev/ttyACM0 driver node (FC3 has devfs running).  
> Is it
> possible to use the phone over this cdc-acm driver?
>
> * e.g. I can modprobe the driver and it loads OK but I can't see the 
> dmesg
> entries as suggested by the Doc/README-DKU2 file.  I see messages from 
> the
> cdc_acm module instead.
>
> * Should I try to disable this cdc-acm driver?  Will that hurt other USB
> connectivity things?

Yes, you need to disable the cdc-acm driver - on some systems it grabs the 
nokia device before my one and hence mine doesn't get used.  The cdc-acm 
driver provides AT functionality but not fbus, so only very little of 
gnokii will work.  I doubt any of your other usb devices us the cdc-acm 
driver - if they do you'll not be able to use both at once (without fixing 
the cdc-acm driver to not grab the nokia).

> * Which .gnokiirc entries should I be using for this phone and connection
> combination?  I've tried model = AT and model = 6510 with no success so 
> far
> (just running xgnokii fails to connect to the phone).  Also which port =,
> and connection = values should I be using?

Once you've got the module to be actually used you'll need to look at 
dmesg to find which port it used.  You want connection = dku2 and model = 
6510.

> * Are there some basic command-line connection tests I can run?  There 
> doesn't
> appear to be much in the documentation on this.

gnokii --identify

Regards, Chris