How to Connect Nokia Phones to Puppy

[Dave_G]

To get back to the original post subject:

I have a Nokia N8 and I notice that when you connect it to the USB
it emulates a drive of sorts and it even includes an autorun.inf file
which points to a exe install pgm which is pre-loaded in the phones memory.
Obviously this is meant only for windows.
Puppy would obviously ignore all the autorun.inf stuff so how would one get
the phone to work under puppy?

I suspect that the situation of connecting a Nokia phone will be made even more
difficult/perplexing now that M$ has taken over providing/writing code for Nokia.

[majorfoo]

To get back to the original post subject:

I have a Nokia N8 and I notice that when you connect it to the USB
it emulates a drive of sorts and it even includes an autorun.inf file
which points to a exe install pgm which is pre-loaded in the phones memory.
Obviously this is meant only for windows.
Puppy would obviously ignore all the autorun.inf stuff so how would one get
the phone to work under puppy?

I suspect that the situation of connecting a Nokia phone will be made even more
difficult/perplexing now that M$ has taken over providing/writing code for Nokia.

have you tried following the steps on page one of this thread that I used successfully on two different nokia phones?

majorfoo

[Dave_G]

I did try several times with no success.
So I gave up on the idea and bought myself a cheap GPRS modem.
Works like a dream, connects via the serial port.
Not the fastest thing to surf the web with, but perfect for email and the
occasional 'wget'.

Below is what it looks like.
It's pretty small too (length = 85mm width = 50mm height = 25mm)

And I can send and receive SMS' as well.

[nooby]

Thanks for the descriptions. I will try them again.

I can do pictures transfer okay but have not tested to get it work as modem due to wrong operator.

I have the better operator on a android smartphone that is more modern.

Dave I where wrong about the outages. It was a local thing in our Condo.
Some Earth protector for the Mains release and that makes power go out to a switch for the internet hub in the cellar and only the Board of the Condo has the keys to set it going again.

[Dave_G]

nooby wrote:

Dave I where wrong about the outages. It was a local thing in our Condo.

5 years and the only extended outage you've experienced was not even
due to the operator, pretty good then.

[tempestuous]

Apparently the cdc-acm driver needs to be updated to recognise the Nokia N8.
It involves a simple patch, from here -
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/23/594

I have just applied this patch and recompiled the driver, now attached.
There are 2 versions; one compatible with Puppy 5.1 - 5.2.8, and one compatible with Puppy 4.3.x

EDIT Nov 1 2011
Puppy 5.1.x version of the cdc-acm driver shifted to here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 318#578318

Plug in your N8 after you have installed this dotpet, and the new cdc-acm driver should load automatically.
Run the "dmesg" command and hopefully at the end you will see that your phone has been recognised, and new device has been created - probably /dev/ttyACM0.
Then you will need to treat this as a standard dial-up modem to connect ... but you may need to know the data connection parameters for your telecoms provider.

[Dave_G]

Thanks tempestuous.

Unfortunately I'm using Puppy 4.3.1 but I have saved the pet if I ever "upgrade" to 5.1 - 5.2.8.

Cheers,
Dave.

[tempestuous]

Well my Puppy 4.3 installation has a corrupted X server, but I was able to compile the driver from the commandline. Now attached to the previous post.

[Dave_G]

Thanks a lot, I will give it a go.

Dave.

[Pelo]

Merci messieurs, it works (2015) . I transfered this information to my french colleagues of the forum francophone ici