Description of problem: Hello, Please provide a method to syncronize a Nokia E61i phone with a Fedora Core desktop, via a Bluetooth connection. Phone is Nokia E61i (smatphone, Symbian-based): http://europe.nokia.com/A4344018 Bluetooth dongle is Belkin F8T012 (FCC ID K7SF8T012): http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?category=206&lang=1&mode Computer runs stock FC6 + updates as April 25, 2007. When I insert the Bluetooth dongle, it is recognised by Fedora and I can do Bluetooth pairing with the phone. However, doing "gnokii --identify" locks up indefinitely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 gnokii-0.6.14-2.fc6 xgnokii-0.6.14-2.fc6 bluez-utils-3.9-1.fc7 (official version from Fedora repository) How reproducible: Always. Actual results: gnokii and xgnokii seems to lock up when trying to establish a connection with the phone. No syncronization is possible. There is no detailed documentation available, with a step-by-step procedure. Expected results: It should be possible to syncronize the phone with the Linux desktop via gnokii. Documentation for final users should be available. Additional info: Please see attached files containing output from various utilities.
Created attachment 153530 [details] Output of sdptool browse <MAC>
Created attachment 153531 [details] Output of hcitool info <MAC>
Created attachment 153532 [details] The /etc/gnokiirc file I use
Hm, it's another one of those... Thing is it sort of work for me, and I don't have neither of these two devices :-/ kinda hard to test without the device in question. I am afraid the best way to get any feedback is in upstream (http://www.gnokii.org/) mailinglist.
That's not needed: rfcomm_channel = 14 and probably wrong. Furthermore, you probably want to use the gnapplet driver, and the related applet on your phone instead of the "series60" driver. But it should still work. Could you please attach the full output of "gnokii --identify" when connecting to the phone?
Pawel Kot, the gnokii upstream maintainer tells me that gnokii does not support Symbian Series60 3rd Edition phones (this means most Nokia E-series and N-series). So closing as UPSTREAM, there's no upstream support for it.
Hello, And thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, maybe I've put this in a wrong way: It is not about some program (gnokii) supporting or not one particular phone. Maybe it's not even a gnokii "bug". It's more about Fedora (as a whole OS) than about gnokii. Mobile phones are an everyday part of our lives and on any major OS we need a robust solution to access this hardware, to syncronize that with our PCs. Fedora is no exception. I've put this "bug" on gnokii because gnokii seems to be the only piece of software included in the distro which deals with mobile phones. IMHO, having full support for old phone models that are no longer on the market seems to be a waste of time and work. It might be interesting from the programmer's point of view, as a hacking & reverse engineering exercise, but it's absolutely unuseful for the final user. Nokia N-Series and E-series are very common today and we desperately need a way to communicate with the phone we have in our own pocket - at least for competing with Microsoft Windows OS. Motorola RAZRs, Sony Ericsson, LG, HTC are in the same trouble. Can we kindly ask the distribution maintainer to identify and include in Fedora some package that supports the actual phones we need, at least at a basic level ? IMHO, functionality being pretty much the same between phone models, we only need a basic, common, unitary text/GUI interface and plugins/APIs for each hardware piece we support. It's not about replicating on Linux the whole fuss of Motorola Phone Tools or Nokia PC Suite, which are obscure and unstable applications. I will reopen this bug, not for the gnokii/xgnokii packages, but for the distro maintainer as a whole. Please reassign it to whom it may concern. Many thanks, Răzvan
That's all good and well, but you should take your feature request to the fedora devel mailing-list where you might be able to get some traction for this project. But unless you are willing to get involved, I don't see this project as happening. You might get lucky if it matches the targets of the developers that are willing to implement this.
(In reply to comment #7) > Nokia N-Series and E-series are very common today and we desperately need a way > to communicate with the phone we have in our own pocket - If you bought it from Nokia, then why not talk to Nokia about the problem? If they put the product on the market and you bought it, you are entitled to their support of your needs. > at least for competing > with Microsoft Windows OS. Motorola RAZRs, Sony Ericsson, LG, HTC are in the > same trouble. Most of these actually work very well with latest gnokii due to Bastiens tireless work on the AT-command parser in gnokii. > Can we kindly ask the distribution maintainer to identify and include in Fedora > some package that supports the actual phones we need, at least at a basic level > ? I think it is better to ask Nokia and [phone brand here] to cooperate with gnokii authors. > IMHO, functionality being pretty much the same between phone models, we only > need a basic, common, unitary text/GUI interface and plugins/APIs for each > hardware piece we support. It's not about replicating on Linux the whole fuss of > Motorola Phone Tools or Nokia PC Suite, which are obscure and unstable applications. Yes that is the idea about gnokii and gnome-phone-manager I think.