On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:06:14PM +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Hello,
I have a Nokia 6230 mobile phone (not the 6230i) and a USB cable to connect it to the computer. I don't have a serial cable. I'm looking for a way to download pictures from the phone.
When I connect the phone to the USB bus, lsusb lists the phone correctly, the module cdc_acm is loaded, and a device /dev/ttyACM0 is created. That made me hope that at least some support is there. Up I go in search for an application.
I searched on Google, but didn't find anything in the first 60 or so matches.
I tried digikam, but that doesn't recognize the phone. Autoscan doesn't work, and manually adding some arbitrary cameras that look like phones doesn't work either.
gphoto2 is only for serially connected cameras, AFAICS. The same with gnokii. If that is not true, I would appreciate experience reports to know that I have to dive deeper in the documentation than I did.
Then I stumbled over gammu. The example configuration file had the information that the 6230 phone has actually no USB chip and needs to be accessed over a protocol called dku2 or dku2phonet and via the /dev/ttyACM0 that got created. I thought `great', configured and tried it -- but to no avail: gammu --identify outputs a message that the phone does not answer.
My 2.5 questions: -- Has anybody had success to connect this phone via USB and access it on Linux? If yes, with which application? -- Which applications are supposed to work with USB-connected phones or cameras? I.e., for which application is it sensible to investigate further?
Some phones use "OBEX" transfers. obexftp might be your friend here. Some USB things might provide USB Mass Storage, just like any USB stick.ftp Ciao, Marcus