HOWTO establish a connection between Linux and a mobile phone via
infrared
Update
This HOWTO is part of the official
Infrared-HOWTO by Werner Heuser since May 2003, so you maybe want to have
a look at his pages for a more recent version.
Additional to the HOWTO for Ericsson mobile phones by Hans
and the Linux
Infrared HOWTO I wrote this document for Siemens/Nokia mobile phone users.
Content:
Tested with the following mobiles:
- Ericsson T39m
- Siemens S25
- Siemens S35i
- Siemens ME45
- Nokia 6110
- Nokia 6210
Note: Some parts of the following text (Irda-Kernel, wvdial.conf) are stolen from Hans site (see above), because the
general description will work for mostly all others too.
IRDA Kernel Configuration
Irda is working as module for me, after installing the irda-utils. I compiled the following kernel
modules:
CONFIG_IRDA=m
CONFIG_IRLAN=m
CONFIG_IRNET=m
CONFIG_IRCOMM=m
CONFIG_IRDA_ULTRA=y
CONFIG_IRDA_OPTIONS=y
CONFIG_IRDA_CACHE_LAST_LSAP=y
CONFIG_IRDA_FAST_RR=y
CONFIG_IRDA_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_IRTTY_SIR=m
CONFIG_NSC_FIR=m
CONFIG_WINBOND_FIR=m
CONFIG_TOSHIBA_FIR=m
CONFIG_SMC_IRCC_FIR=m
Edit /etc/modules.conf
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
# The following is for new kernel.
alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
# The following is for old kernel.
alias char-major-60 ircomm_tty
# To be able to attach some dongles
alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
alias irda-dongle-1 esi
alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
alias irda-dongle-6 airport
alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
# FIR device drivers.
# options smc-ircc ircc_irq= ircc_dma=
# alias irda0 smc-ircc
# options toshoboe max_baud=
# alias irda0 toshoboe
# options w83977af_ir io= io2= irq= qos_mtt_bits=
# alias irda0 w83977af_ir
# To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following:
# options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09
# alias irda0 nsc-ircc
Bind the IRDA device
# /usr/sbin/irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s
# lsmod | grep -i ir
irtty 7456 2 (autoclean)
irda 141612 1 (autoclean) [irtty]
Mobile found?
# irdadump
xid:rsp be1eb736 < 08666644 S=6 s=4 SIEMENS S35 hint=9024 [ Modem IrCOMM IrOBEX ] (28)
# irdaump
xid:rsp be1eb736 < 35450000 S=6 s=4 Nokia 6100 hint=8101 [ PnP Telephony ] (28)
# irdaump
xid:rsp be1eb736 < 04489982 S=6 s=5 SIEMENS ME45 hint=b124 [ PnP Modem Fax IrCOMM IrOBEX ] (29)
Connect to the internet
You'll need the following things:
PPP kernel support
CONFIG_PPP=m
# CONFIG_PPP_MULTILINK is not set
# CONFIG_PPP_FILTER is not set
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=m
# CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE is not set
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m
PPP dial-up software
- There are several ways to connect to your ISP. The easiest (and sometimes the only :) way is to
use a terminal program like minicom.
- If you prefer more comfort, you can use wvdial.
It's easy to configure and it works
with a lot of roaming providers and the german Tante T.
gh0st and me did
some testing yesterday and we weren't able to connect to the dial-in server of the HRZ with wvdial. wvdial
always failed with "Bad password", because the server respondend faster that the mobile softmodem could send
the login and password strings. See the standard ppp config below, it works fine :)
- Problems with wvdial (see explanation above)? IMO the best way is to use the standard
PPP tools. You can configure
them via pppconfig, start with pon and stop connection with poff.
NOTE: All students of the Philipps-University Marburg can use the
"Dial-In Zugang des HRZ" to connect to
the internet via mobile. If you have D2/Vodafone and "Best-City-Special", you can check emails
at the Mensa for a really low fare (email via mobile rocks :)
Example files for PPP with a connection named uni:
- /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
# HRZ-Username connection-name password
Test23 uni test
- /etc/ppp/peers/uni
hide-password
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/uni"
debug
/dev/ircomm0
9600
defaultroute
noipdefault
user Test23
remotename uni
ipparam uni
usepeerdns
- /etc/chatscripts/uni
ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE'
ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED
'' ATZ
# dial-in number of the HRZ Marburg
OK-AT-OK ATDT064211790
CONNECT \d\c
Play around with your Siemens (logos, sounds, sms, ...)
If you get your Siemens mobile working via infrared, you can do some nice stuff
with it. You can fetch informations, save your phonebook or your SMS, send SMS, put new
logos (BMP format) on it, save the old logo to your harddisk and do the same with
your ringtone (MIDI).
To do all this nice things, you'll need the following:
- a Siemens mobile-phone
- a working infrared connection
- scmxx
- gscmxx (optional)
- Bind your mobile
# irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s
IrDA: Registered device irda0
# irdadump
xid:cmd 9d5dcefa > ffffffff S=6 s=3 (14)
xid:cmd 9d5dcefa > ffffffff S=6 s=4 (14)
xid:rsp 9d5dcefa < 08666644 S=6 s=3 SIEMENS S35 hint=9024 [ Modem IrCOMM IrOBEX ] (28)
- Show informations about your mobile
# scmxx -i
Accessing device /dev/ircomm0
OK, a modem device is present.
Vendor: SIEMENS
Model: S35i
Revision: 20
Serial (Phone): xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Serial (SIM): xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SIM-ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Operator: D2
SMS Server: +491722270333
Charset: GSM
Battery: 40%
Signal/BER: -79 dBm/?
Time: 02/10/07,11:48:49
Readable Slots: bmp: 0-1, mid: 0, vcs: 1-30
Phonebooks: FD, SM, ON, ME, LD, MC, RC, OW, MS, CD, BL, RD, CS
SMS storages: SM
- Save your phonebook to disk
# scmxx -g -PSM -f phonebook
Accessing device /dev/ircomm0
OK, a modem device is present.
Detected SIEMENS S35i
phonebook created.
Receiving: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [...]
Received all gettable entries
- Show your SMS (here in slot 3)
# scmxx -g -S3 -f -
Accessing device /dev/ircomm0
OK, a modem device is present.
Detected SIEMENS S35i
Looking for SMS of specified type...
Receiving incoming, read SMS from slot 3.
Slot: 3
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 2002-10-03 23:11:47 (GMT+0)
SMSC number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PDU type: SMS-DELIVER MMS
Data Coding Scheme: 7bit-GSM
Message length: 160
Message:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Save your current logo to disk
# scmxx -g -B0 -f logo.bmp
Accessing device /dev/ircomm0
OK, a modem device is present.
Detected SIEMENS S35i
Slot 0...
Receiving packet 1 of 5...
logo.bmp created.
Receiving packet 2 of 5...
Receiving packet 3 of 5...
Receiving packet 4 of 5...
Receiving packet 5 of 5...
File transfer complete.
- Save your current ringtone to disk
# scmxx -g -M0 -f sound.mid
Accessing device /dev/ircomm0
OK, a modem device is present.
Detected SIEMENS S35i
Slot 0...
Receiving packet 1 of 1...
sound.mid created.
File transfer complete.
Have a look at the scmxx(1) man-page or look at the README file for further information.
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