i am going to kill everyone
Seriously now: I'm on cell phone number 2 and cell phone cable number 3, and I STILL can't get Gammu working. Right now I'm trying to work off of these instructions, but it's not even clear that the thread's participants had success. And, to be honest, I'm not following all the instructions — compiling custom kernel modules seems a little advanced, but I suppose I'll give it a shot eventually.
Anyway, I'm officially running crying back to mommy, aka the project listserv. They haven't been able to help me out yet, but the current batch of Nokia crap was bought on their recommendation, so I'm doing my best to maintain my trademark childlike optimism.
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I think that my officemate was futzing with this. Assuming you are using a Nokia phone, I think that the brand of cable makes a difference, dependent also on the model of phone. I can't recall the details right now, but it's something like you MUST use the Nokia cable (to the tune of like $40), and the cheap ones on ebay just won't work.
Outside of that, he loves him some kernel recompling, so it's possible that you need something not on the released branch.
Well, I've got the official Nokia and the unofficial ArkMicroChips cables. From what people working on the project tell me, the Nokia cable is the one that absolutely, poisitively won't work... apparently its proprietary chipset has never been supported by developers. The generics use a more standard usb to serial interface (PL2303 chip, I believe).
Did your coworker ever get this working?
According to him, it worked pretty well right out of the box (he may have been using gnoki, but I think the underpinnings are the same). He said to get higher-speed transfers he had to load a kernel module specific to his phone (forget the model number), and that was it. I think he's using the latest kernel, probably ontop of the latest Debian unstable distro. He was only using it to do file transfer, so it's possible there's other things you are trying to do that just don't work...
hmm... well, my setup is failing on the simple process of identifying the phone. if I could get Gammu to talk to it, I'm fairly confident that I could get the SMS functionality I need out of it. Any chance you could ask the guy if he'd mind me emailing him?
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