Connect your mobile phone via infrared with your Linux box

Information

Additional to Hans HOWTO for Ericsson mobile phones and the Linux Infrared HOWTO I wrote this little text for Siemens/Nokia mobile phone users.

Content:

• IRDA Kernel Configuration
• Edit /etc/modules.conf
• Bind the IRDA device
• Connect to the internet via PPP
• Use the dial-in account of the Philipps University
• Play around with your Siemens (logos, ringtones, sms, ...)

Tested with the following mobiles:

• Ericsson T39m (by Hans)
• 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 :)

  • /etc/wvdial.conf:

    	[Dialer Defaults]
    	Modem = /dev/ircomm0
    	Baud = 9600
    	Init1 = ATZ
    	Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
    	Password = internet
    	Username = internet
    	Phone = 00393492002800
    	ISDN = 0
    	Modem Type = Analog Modem
    
    	[Dialer shh]
    	Init3 = ATM0
    	

• 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 get 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)

1. 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)
   	

2. 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
   	

3. 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
   	

4. 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
   	

5. 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.
   	

6. 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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