Nokia PC suit running under wine rc3

abhifx · Post by **abhifx** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:25 am

i am happy to inform that nokis pc suit is installing and running under wine. after that it cant find my phone and hence is unable to connect with it. what can i do to make it work?

thanks in advance

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 9:22 am

That most likely requires USB support which isn't that good in Wine right now. But Linux should detect your Nokia phone just fine and use it for every task, including storage and networking. What OS are you running?

Cheers,

Jorl17

abhifx · Post by **abhifx** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:42 pm

i am running ubuntu and wine 1.2 rc3.

i have tried everything from gnokii, gammu/wammu etc. everything have failed to work with my mobile. apart from USB tethering, i cant use my mobile much. nokia pc suite would have been a great temporary solution.

i will be very happy if someone can help me. i don't want to use windows for such a simple reason

Cr0k · Post by **Cr0k** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:56 pm

My answer r is not related to wine (sorry :/) but on the Internet some pepole say that in a virtual machine (i.e. VirtualBox) it works.. Did you try it ?

abhifx · Post by **abhifx** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:11 am

Cr0k wrote:My answer r is not related to wine (sorry :/) but on the Internet some pepole say that in a virtual machine (i.e. VirtualBox) it works.. Did you try it ?

i have read that too. this means installing windows on a virtual machine. i don't want to do that either. but the point is that, if virtual machine can recognize my phone/usb cable.... then wine should too? (i know wine is not an emulator) but still can should recognise the usb device?

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:24 am

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 07:11, abhifx <[email protected]> wrote:

Cr0k wrote:
My answer r is not related to wine (sorry :/) but on the Internet some pepole say that in a virtual machine (i.e. VirtualBox) it works.. Did you try it ?
i have read that too. this means installing windows on a virtual machine. i don't want to do that either. but the point is that, if virtual machine can recognize my phone/usb cable.... then wine should too? (i know wine is not an emulator) but still can should recognise the usb device?

If Linux detects a USB to serial device, you might have some luck...
(bluetooth as well, if it uses the serial port interface)

Have a look at /dev/*tty* and create a symlink for the relevant device
to ~/.wine/dosdevices (this should really be in the FAQ...). PC suite
might need to be configured for serial cable on the relevant com
port...

(This assumes you want to use PC Suite to do something on the phone,
such as sync it with your not-yet-working-under-Wine Outlook, copy
photo's, not using it for internet...)

Virtualbox etc, allows the guest OS full USB access to the device...
This allows the Windows driver to run and talk to the phone... Wine
might eventually expose the device's Linux driver in a way that
Windows applications expect it... (and/or implement support for
Windows USB drivers under Wine, have a look at
http://wiki.winehq.org/USB) (wrapping Linux drivers to work under
Wine, will work for things with a well-defined API, such as bluetooth,
probably not for vendor specific drivers exposing its own interface)

Gert

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:52 am

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 13:23 +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:

If Linux detects a USB to serial device, you might have some luck...
(bluetooth as well, if it uses the serial port interface)

Have a look at /dev/*tty* and create a symlink for the relevant device
to ~/.wine/dosdevices (this should really be in the FAQ...). PC suite
might need to be configured for serial cable on the relevant com
port...

I don't think this has been mentioned here recently, so here goes: a
sure fire way of seeing whether Linux can recognise your USB connected
device and of finding out what it is called is to run the following
command:

tail -f /var/log/messages

as root or via sudo before plugging in the USB device. "tail -f" watches
the end of /var/log/messages and displays lines written to it as they
are written, so its easy to see the device connect, what type of driver
is assigned to it and what device name gets assigned to it.

After you've seen what you wanted, stop "tail -f " by typing Ctrl-C.

Bootnote: tail, when run without any options, lists the last 10 lines in
a file and exits - the -f option tells it to keep watching to file and
displaying new lines as they are written to the file.

Martin

abhifx · Post by **abhifx** » Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:36 pm

1st of all, thank you guys. i will try this and report back once i return home in the evening. WINE rockss!

Cloudef · Post by **Cloudef** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:19 am

http://series60-remote.sourceforge.net/

This has been working as great PC Suite alternative for me.

abhifx · Post by **abhifx** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:24 am

i haven't checked it (sourceforge doesn't open on my connection) but i dont own a s60 device as of now. a dumb phone from my office.

i really wanted an open source alternative, but since nothing works its wine for me. i still haven't tested the usb feature. lets hope that it works. ( i am thinking of irritating the wammu/gammu developer

abhifx · Post by **abhifx** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:59 am

hi. yes my phone is detected in linux as i can do usb tethering with it. but i still dont know how to create the symlink to .wine . can someone give me a step by step guide? my phone is detected in /dev/ttyACM0

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:22 pm

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 16:59, abhifx <[email protected]> wrote:

hi. yes my phone is detected in linux as i can do usb tethering with it. but i still dont know how to create the symlink to .wine . can someone give me a step by step guide? my phone is detected in /dev/ttyACM0

The figure it out yourself way:
man ln

easy way:
cd ~/.wine/dosdevices
ln -s /dev/ttyACM0 com4 # not user if it is case sensitive...