Comments on: p910i and SyncML hell

By: John

John — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:04:33 +0000

Have been playing with my p910. Can get solid ppp over BT or USB. I was having the same issue as PHiL where the phone disconnected after a short time. Using ethereal against ppp0 I could see the phone making DNS requests for the name mrouter. Once you can deliver the response the phone no longer disconnects. I set up named listening on ppp0 and in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local I added 'rndc reload' so named picked up the now new ppp0. I suspect that mDnsdaemon (sp?) can do this as well, but I knew roughly how named worked. I got some stuff working with multisync, and also seperately with funambol. All seems really buggy and unstable. I even managed to crash something on my phone using 'nmap x.x.x.x -p 1-65535'. Still trying.

HTH John

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:31:31 +0000

Thanks for this information, but I am having 1 problem that seems to be stopping things.

When I create the ppp connection, the phone then makes a GPRS connection and the route back the laptop doesn't work, and the sync doesn't happen.

Any ideas. Thanks

By: PHiL

PHiL — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:17:22 +0000

Yes, you’re right… I was used that both devices ask for that password. The laptop was setting
it in the config file. Now I’am able to create the ppp link. But my SuSE10.0 version of multisynk (yes with a k) doesn’t know about syncml, all plugin are Konnector plugins…
The classic Gnome-multisync is available too. I tried with this one too. pppd seems to work correctly but the P910 keep saying “Connecting” and after 2-3 min the link is shut down.
Still sth broken somewhere in the flow. I’ll re-check all the parameters and fetch the ngrep tool. Thank for your help

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:36:12 +0000

Hmm, maybe the Bluetooth pairing pin ?

By: PHiL

PHiL — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:24:28 +0000

Hi
I’am beginning to play with this bluetooth syncro. I have a different answer from the P910i: when issuing second rfcomm, the P910 ask for a password to connect to my Laptop… Either the syncml pass or empty doesn’t work… do you have any idea ‘which’ password I’shall enter at the P910 prompt?

By: Henning Rogge

Henning Rogge — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:37:21 +0000

I can exchange informations between the phone and kde with the "Obex object push" protocoll, but KBluetoothD never shows a paired device...

( the phone shows the linux bluetooth stack on the "paired" list )

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:18:28 +0000

Are you able to do pairing with the phone? Try to use a tool like kbluetoothd, which should assist you checking if bluetooth connections work properly.
I used the usb cradle with the ‘ftdi-sio’ driver, but i never tried to sync via the usb serial dev.

By: Henning Rogge

Henning Rogge — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:07:24 +0000

You were partly right… I compiled ppp into my kernel but forgot to copy it onto my boot partition !

Not there seem to be some kind of connection, but it’s still not stable. Is there a way to use the USB connector instead of Bluetooth, maybe there is something wrong with my Bluetooth setup ( AVM Bluefritz stick ).

( sudo is no problem because I run the script in a root console )

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:26:50 +0000

I quick google says, that might be ppp kernel modules are missing. What says a lsmod ?
Are you using the step by step howto or the script? Maybe your sudo call doesn’t work, because you are not listed in /etc/sudoers.

By: Henning Rogge

Henning Rogge — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:22:31 +0000

I tried your summary ( and the script ), but I always get

"Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument"

from "pppd rfcomm0 noauth debug nodetach ...."