[LUGSB] Problem with /dev/ttyUSB*

[Chris Wright]

Sacrifice a goat.

What device entries are created when you plug it in? Try doing:
$ ls -R /dev > devices1 # not inserted
$ ls -R /dev > devices2 # inserted
$ diff devices1 devices2

All else fails, you can copy the pictures over with SNG

On 07/03/07, JST <chozar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone may be able to help me with this.
>
> I have cell phone (Nokia 6820) and a data cable for it (CA-42).
>
> Supposedly it works but not the best in Linux, the phone is has no
> service, and I just need to get all the pictures/data off of it and then
> junk/recycle it.  (The power connector was broken off so I finally got
> around to soldering a solution to get it to charge up again.)
>
> Now supposedly there is a program called gammu and a gui frontend called
> wammu that can access it and get everything I need.  All that  I have to
> specify gammu to let it work is the device that my data cable
> represents.  When plugged in and turned on, I have no /dev/ttyUSB* or
> /dev/ttyACM*, or anything under /dev/usb or /dev/input for it.  I do
> have /dev/usbdev2.2_ep00 (and ep02 ep81 ep82).  lsusb shows the device,
> and dmesg shows that it sees a connection.  I am certain that these are
> the right device nodes for this thing, because the bus/id match up, and
> I can see the vendorID with lsusb.  So I have these character device
> nodes in /dev/, but none of them work with gammu, even after given full
> permissions.  I am wondering why exactly I am missing /dev/ttyUSB*,
> which seems like a more common convention for serial data through usb
> ports, and the one that gammu checks by default.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about what this could be?  I was thinking it
> could be something missing out of my kernel, but modem over usb, serial
> over usb, all that stuff is on or a loaded module.
>
> Oh yeah, so I figured why not and I grabbed the official Nokia .exe and
> tried to run it under Wine, to no luck.  So I bit the bullet realizing
> that I may indeed have one of those elusive devices that only works in
> windows, so I installed the driver on my brother's machine.  Yeah that
> system is sort of hosed now.  What a crap driver/setup.
>
> Any suggestions?
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