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Jim Bray
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Nokia 3650 as Modem using GPRS and Bluetooth; Check Out Mozilla Firefox
I just got this working on an old Toshiba laptop, on which I'm running
Win98 for the time being. First I tried using Nokia's modem setup utility,
but it apparently didn't recognise my USB Bluetooth widget (some generic
thing from Ebay which apparently uses Widcomm software) and was useless.
Then I tried variants of instructions for doing it with Linux, but
eventually trolled the Net and came up with an extremely simple solution:
use *99# as the phone number (no AT prefix). Worked right away, gave me a
solid 3.2KB/sec on a download. Not real fast, and I'm not cancelling my
Newegg order for a Wifi card, but I'll sure enjoy it next time I'm on a
long train ride or something... or my cable or main system goes down.
In other news, Mozilla Firebird has been renamed yet again, due to a
namespace conflict, as Firefox. Firebird was
better (apparently some Freeware program I've never heard of had claim on
it [Give it up!], but Fire**** 0.8 is impressive. [I nominate 'Firestar'
for the next namechange!] Fastest browser I've ever used. You won't notice
it on a modern system, probably, but I'm back to using the old K6-2 since
the third K7-class mboard I've tried died on me [is this stuff just pushed
too far to be stable now?], and 0.8 has noticeably quicker startup and
rendering than 0.7 (or Mozilla 1.6) does. And IE? Buh-Bye, IE. Buh-Bye.
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Bluetooth and Nokia 3650: Success!
I bought a Bluetooth USB dongle recently on ebay (two, actually, because
of my bidding strategy, so I have one to sell), and without too much
difficulty managed to bluetooth a picture from my phone to my
Debian/unstable Linux box. The bluetooth widget claims to be a 'Bluetooth
PC Adapter Y-212' and that is about all it has to say for itself. The
following comments all refer to Debian/unstable on 12/21/03.
Notes and Hacks:
My primary source was http://www.saunalahti.fi/~laakkon1/linux/3650_blue.php
Notes on this site:
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'sdptool add --channel=10 OPUSH' is needed as stated. There is no rc file
for sdpd, leaving the ugly choice of hacking this into
/etc/init.d/bluez-sdpd.
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The 'openobex-apps' package is not required. 'obexserver'
is. obexserver, like sdpd, doesn't have an /etc/rc file and doesn't
take args. It dumps stuff in /tmp, period. It doesn't need to run as root;
run it with the UID you want the downloaded files to belong to.
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There appears to be no 'ussp-push' in Debian/unstable.
ussp-push
I pulled down the source from
http://www.unrooted.net/hacking/bluez-rfcomm-obex.html> and hacked it
a bit (see below). Then I built it and used it to send the Makefile to my
phone (it came in as a text-message).
ussp-push patch
This fixes Makefile to work both with Debian and hopefully other
distros, and makes the code work with the latest libopenobex. I sent it
upstream to the developer, so you hopefully won't need it soon.
diff -b -C 1 ussp-push-old/Makefile ussp-push/Makefile
*** ussp-push-old/Makefile Mon Jul 1 04:35:28 2002
--- ussp-push/Makefile Sun Dec 21 15:02:25 2003
***************
*** 18,21 ****
--- 18,29 ----
+ GLIB=glib-2.0
+
GLIBINC=$(shell glib-config --cflags)
+ ifneq (, $(findstring '-I', $(GLIBINC)) )
+ GLIBINC=$(shell pkg-config --cflags $(GLIB))
+ endif
GLIBLIB=$(shell glib-config --libs)
+ ifneq (, $(findstring '-L', $(GLIBLIB)) )
+ GLIBLIB=$(shell pkg-config --libs $(GLIB))
+ endif
***************
*** 27,30 ****
--- 35,46 ----
+
+
+ OBEXINC=$(shell openobex-config --cflags)
+ ifneq (, $(findstring '-I', $(OBEXINC)) )
OBEXINC=-I/usr/local/include
+ endif
+ OBEXLIB=$(shell openobex-config --libs)
+ ifneq (, $(findstring '-L', $(OBEXINC)) )
OBEXLIB=-L/usr/local/lib -lopenobex
+ endif
diff -b -C 1 ussp-push-old/obex_main.c ussp-push/obex_main.c
*** ussp-push-old/obex_main.c Mon Jul 1 04:26:11 2002
--- ussp-push/obex_main.c Sun Dec 21 14:33:13 2003
***************
*** 222,225 ****
}
!
custfunc.userdata = gt->userdata;
custfunc.connect = cobex_connect;
--- 222,228 ----
}
! #ifdef OLDLIBOBEX
custfunc.userdata = gt->userdata;
+ #else //OLDLIBOBEX
+ custfunc.customdata = gt->userdata;
+ #endif //OLDLIBOBEX
custfunc.connect = cobex_connect;
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ussp-push Debian Package available
I made a Debian .deb of ussp-push (see previous entry), available
here:
http://as220.org/jb/freeware/ussp-push/ for your
Bluetooth pleasure.
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Nokia 3650 videos and such from Western North Carolina
I'm down in the mountains of Western North Carolina these days, using
my new Nokia 3650 for e-mail and primitive web-browsing, and as a camera,
video-camera, tape recorder, notepad and general PDA. Gotta love it. I've
been mailing myself stuff from the phone to off-phone archive it (to free up
the memory card for new stuff), and found that I could use the browser in
the phone to look at my uploaded videos, which are viewable here:
http://as220.org/jb/vids. Enjoy.
...Hot Dang! Just for yucks I tried to view one with the loathsome MSIE. My
friend Heather is a multi-media freak, so I wasn't too surprised that it
played, once I let RealPlayer download a plugin for it...
That worked so well, I did some more hackery with procmail and munpack,
so my new multimedia uploads will automatically become visible here:
http://as220.org/jb/newmedia.
UPDATE: Still down in WNC. Made a directory where pictures can be seen after
I sort them out from newmedia:
http://as220.org/jb/pics.
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