[ILUG] Linux compatible mobile phone

[Timothy Murphy]

On Saturday 04 December 2004 15:33, Martin List-Petersen wrote:

> > You also said, if I understood you correctly,
> > that you could communicate with the phone with Bluetooth
> > through /dev/rfcomm0 .
> > I know that is supposed to be possible,
> > but I've never been able to do it with minicom.
> > What program do you use for this purpose?
> > If minicom, what initial string do you use?
>
> minicom, simply ATZ will do, or any customer initstring that you wish.

OK, I just tried minicom, 
after setting minicom's serial port to /dev/rfcomm0 .
This is what I get.
I'm more than willing to believe I've done something stupid ...
But it shows that for me at least minicom/AT is far from simple to use.
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Script started on Sat 04 Dec 2004 17:02:13 GMT
[tim at william ~]$ sudo service bluetooth restart
Stopping Bluetooth services: ...
Starting Bluetooth services: ...
[tim at william ~]$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
 00:02:EE:10:A5:BE gayleard
[tim at william ~]$ ls -ls /dev/rfcomm0
ls: /dev/rfcomm0: No such file or directory
[tim at william ~]$ sudo rfcomm bind 0 $PHONE 1
[tim at william ~]$ ls -ls /dev/rfcomm0
0 crw-------  1 tim root 216, 0 Dec  4 17:04 /dev/rfcomm
[tim at william ~]$ minicom
minicom: cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: No such file or directory
[tim at william ~]$ sudo !!
sudo minicom
minicom: cannot open /dev/rfcomm0: Host is down
[tim at william ~]$ ls -ls /dev/rfcomm0
0 crw-------  1 tim root 216, 0 Dec  4 17:04 /dev/rfcomm0
[tim at william ~]$ exit
exit
Script done on Sat 04 Dec 2004 17:05:27 GMT
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> Even for using gnokii over bluetooth you will need to have a working
> bluez/rfcomm setup.

You need bluettooh, obviously.
But you don't need to know anything about rfcomm.
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Script started on Sat 04 Dec 2004 17:12:05 GMT
[tim at william ~]$ sudo service bluetooth restart
...
[tim at william ~]$ gnokii --identify
GNOKII Version 0.6.1
IMEI         : 350841200802729
Manufacturer : Nokia
Model        : NPE-4
Revision     : V 04.20
[tim at william ~]$ exit
exit
Script done on Sat 04 Dec 2004 17:12:40 GMT
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