> -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 December 2005 04:16 PM > To: Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu; misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Connecting Nokia (and other) phones to a pc > > > --On 14 December 2005 15:30 +0200, Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu > wrote: > > > A lot of people have done this it seems, but with serial cables, not > > USB. > > A lot of USB cables for phones (especially third-party ones) include > standard USB-serial adapters attaching to ucom(4), often using a > Prolific chip supported by uplcom(4). > > Some cables which aren't supported are likely to use the same > chips but > with different device-id so they're not automatically recognised. In > these cases, it can be easy to support them (especially if > you know who > makes the chip). > > N.B. some phones which come with a USB connecter cannot be used for > GPRS, with these it's usually only possible to access the > phone memory > over USB. In those cases, sometimes a different 'data cable' is > available, but often you need to use bluetooth or irda instead. > > There is also such a thing as a bluetooth-rs232 adapter (requiring no > OS support), but you probably won't like the price, and I don't know > how compatible they are with phones. > > > I am currently stuck on this error: > > ugenpoll: no edesc > > > > Anyone have any idea what it means? I know it has something > to do with > > USB itself. > > edesc = endpoint descriptor, but knowing this won't help you. > > Your device is attached by ugen, a generic driver that allows > programs > to talk to USB devices that don't have a real driver. But those > programs need to know how to talk to the device, you can't > just use it > as a tty and run ppp over it. > > First, I think you should confirm the phone really can do GPRS over > USB. No point wasting time trying to make it work, if it's impossible. > > The phone can do gprs over USB on windows using software supplied by Nokia. It creates a "netword card" in XP network connections. To connect you simply activate the "network card".
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