Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[paulski]

The last time I tried to try something with my Nokia phone I realized a lack of a "starting point" threads on using Nokias with puppy.
This thread aims to pool the knowledge from many "I need help with my model 1234 nokia" threads.
..and hopefully provide a starting point for beginners and experts alike
trying to do stuff with Nokias and Puppy together.

I am no expert -but hopefully enough Nokia-Puppy users will jump on the bandwagon and add corrections and experience to this thread and make the whole process a little less confusing for newbies.

First the principles

Connection
1. Serial Cable
This is for older phones and perhaps the least problematic.
Usually no special drivers are needed- the hard work is in getting
the software setup right to read the correct serial "tty" port (i.e. gnokii's .gnokiirc file).

2. USB cables
Older phones using DKU5 cables often are really a usb to serial cable in
disguise.
You may have to find out the converter chip type built into the cable and
activate it at the modprobe level
see:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27298

Example - For a third party DKU5 cable using an Ark3116 chip

[saima122]

thx ....


Nokia N75

[nooby]

Thanks,

I have not tried any of it but it is good to know somebody care about us

Nokia E75
Ooops why did I not wait until the N900 arrived?

[aarf]

there is an obex tool in ubuntu that does some good phone related things (so i have read). maybe try getting obex tool into upup. (attempted but never found the persistence to actually get there myself.)
else some new things here to me. one day i will get this to work and then i can dump my nokia phone forever. now it is a daunting task to manually transfer over all the info to a new non-nokia phone. my ca42 cable seems to have been blacklisted by XP because it wont now work there on any of the many machines i have tried. refuse to even see the previously see-able driver so I cant use PCsuite any more.
still can and often use the CA42 cable for gprs connect in puppy though. no, there is no removable SDcard on my phone. no bluetooth, and infra red has never work from the absolute beginning.

[aarf]

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/utilities/pcsc-lite/1.4.101/pcsc-lite-1.4.101-i486-1mch.tgz

[paulski]

aarf
Thanks for the feedback on the link. First post edited accordingly.

Should you have success or none with the Obex program in upup - please post something.

[aarf]

[nooby]

Has anybody used Upup and confirmed it to work with obex?

I am too newbie so most of the Dpup and Upup crash when I go to their repository and then try to pupsave it after install. I am not experienced enough to get it working.

I maybe buy Nokia N900 eventually so would be cool to be able to use it in linux too. It already have a version of linux on it. Maemo which will update to Megoo linux later. Meego or Megoo? = Maemo + Moblin.

[aarf]

jemimah may have done the obex pets and dependency stuff at Bluez 4.61 with GUI

[paulski]

Thanks again aarf for the link.
I've noted it in the first post until I can update the information

Looks like everything in bluetooth needs overhauling in newer Puppies due to changes in how the kernel operates, what modules are available etc.

[paulski]

Some work has been done lately with Lucid Puppy to get bluetooth going.

It appears with some installs and tweaking it will work in 5.2. 5.28 is still looking like it needs some work but it looks promising.

The thread cross linked here below is a bit messy but its full of gold and some hard work by other forum members.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67113

I'm going to try it myself and one day come up with something simple to install. In the meantime I have to revert to an older puppy to get stuff off my phone. It worked well back then.

[pemasu]

I just couldnt resist. Nokia is not connecting people anymore, they are mostly disconnecting people in Finland. Thousands of them. Lol. Joke which is not a joke.

[majorfoo]

Here's how I did it for nokia 6555b and nokia 6350

Adapter cable is required with usb connector on one end and phone adapter on other. Mine is Nokia Type CA-101.

Plug cable to phone and PC

On phone
Open Settings Menu
Select Connectivity
Select USB Data Cable
Select Data storage
STOP at this point on phone

Go to Pc and mount USB device
Pictures are in folder = images

You can copy from/to this folder
When you are finished, UNMOUNT USB device on PC first.
Then press back button on the phone which disconnects phone from PC..

My wife has a Nokia model 6350

Steps are same as above. Only difference is where 6355 uses Data Storage, the 6350 uses Data Select.

Finding answer to this question, will allow me to basically retire my windows XP machine

majorfoo

[nooby]

Thanks I have to test this. Lost internet three times now for hours.
So would be cool to be able to use the ordinary computer and the smart phone as a modem and get internet that way.

pemasu sorry I missed the joke. Nokia is connecting people to M$ Microsoft Windows 8 maybe or to Meego but that is kind of too late?
The N9 is suppose to be Meego but not many care do they. Kind of sad that Meego was that late coming out so it failed to get popular.

[nooby]

majorfoo that worked well for me on Nokia.

Now I get curious on if I can use it as a modem but realize that teh operator charge much money for using it so I will do it on my android instead. That one is only 3SEK per day in cost.