Re: [Opensync-users] opensync installation for Nokia usb

[Rodolfo M. <rod...@gm...>]

Rodolfo Medina schrieb:

>> I wish to read phonebook and sms from my mobile phone, a Nokia 6630
>> plugged to the PC with USB cable,
>> and Alexander Kanavin from the openobex mailing list suggested me to
>> use the latest opensync with syncml support for that purpose.
>> Do you think it will be all right?
>
> [...]
>
> What really matters to me is being able to access the phonebook and saving
> its data, no matter with what app. Is that possible with opensync?


Markus Meyer <me...@me...> writes:
   
> This is possible using the file-sync plugin


Could you suggest how? Opensync and the file-sync plugin are
installed in my system, but the doc is not enough for me for this purpose.




Markus:

> Gnokii (http://www.gnokii.org/) is essentially a Linux driver for
> Nokia phones which will allow you to read/write/send/receive SMS. It
> will also allow you to edit/import/export your phonebook. It has a nice
> graphical application called xgnokii. It cannot sync, though.



Rodolfo:

> I've been trying hard, lately, to solve the problem, i.e. to manage
> to see my phone filesystem and save its data.
> I tried several tools, none of which successful, also Gnokii.
> With Gnokii I didn't manage to access my phone, nor did they from
> the gnokii mailing list reply to my request of help. See:
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.gnokii/7713



Markus:

>> You should try to use "series60" as the model, not "AT-HW". And if this
>> doesn't work, you really should try to get newest Gnokii CVS and compile
>> it. I can help with that if you want, though the channel #gnokii on
>> irc.freenode.net can also be very helpful.


matthias jahn <jah...@fr...> writes:

> you could also use my debian (sid,etch and sarge) repro at :
> http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/
>
> For Sarge there exists current gnokii cvs builds.
> For Etch and Sid you could also find syncml opensync packages ...... 
> but i never found enough time to port them back to sarge. ;-(


Thanks:
I installed the cvs gnokii package from the site you indicate, but...
the result is the same as the old version:
the checking gnokii options `identify' and `monitor' seem to work,
but not the operative ones such as `getphonebook', `displayoutput', 
`getdatetime' and `getsms'.
I'll be writing to gnokii mailing list again.


Markus:

> I understand that all of this may be frustrating for you, but phone
> support is not one of Linux strengths at the moment. There are many
> areas where linux is very good and user-friendly now (say, web browsing
> and email), but some are not as developed as others. Maybe the situation
> will be better in, like 5 years or so, just as accessing the Internet
> with Linux is now much more straightforward with current distros than in
> 2001.


Accessing the Internet with Linux was terribly difficult in my experience.
Linux wouldn't see my modem in any way, and two years ago I was even
more ignorant than I'm now with computers.
But the problem was brilliantly worked out thanks to the patient, step-by-step
help of Jacques Goldberg and Marvin Stodolsky at

 http://linmodems.org/

. Thanks to their support I could finally report a detailed procedure
that was useful to others:

  http://linmodems.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:mss:23820:200607:bnckpnojnhaeglkcofeb

. As for phones, it was quite hard to make my Nokia 6630 work
as modem, but at least it was done: see:

 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5016

. Catching and sending email was very difficult and user-unfriendly with 
Emacs-Gnus, but at last it is possible to use it (as I'm doing now) thanks to 
Gnus manual and the help from gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup...

... and so on.

We all know that all is possible in Open Source world *with* other
users' help, nothing or almost nothing is possible *without* it.

Regards,
Rodolfo