Rich Buggy

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Making Ubuntu and my Windows Mobile phone talk

Written by Rich on March 19th, 2007

Ever since I moved to Ubuntu I haven’t been able to get my XDA II mini to stay connected. The output from dmesg was always the same:

[17179652.184000] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[17179652.356000] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179652.460000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
[17179652.464000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[17179652.464000] usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic
[17179652.464000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
[17179652.472000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for PocketPC PDA
[17179652.472000] drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c: USB PocketPC PDA driver v0.5
[17179652.472000] ipaq 2-2:1.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected
[17179652.472000] usb 2-2: PocketPC PDA converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[17179652.472000] usbcore: registered new driver ipaq

followed about 5 seconds later by:

[17179667.064000] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[17179667.064000] ipaq ttyUSB0: PocketPC PDA converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[17179667.068000] ipaq 2-2:1.0: device disconnected

The solution turns out to be really simple – TURN YOUR PHONE ON!!

With the phone turned off Linux will detect the phone and set everything up then report the phone as disconnected about 5 seconds later. The solution is to turn your phone on. It doesn’t seem to matter if you turn it on before or after you connect it, just as long as you do it before running synce-serial-start.

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3 Comments so far ↓

  1. Ben Pintilie says:
    April 11, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Hi there,

    I have just found your post and Im hoping you could help me in the right direction. Im new to Ubuntu and have an XDA mini s and need to be able to use the modem.

    Do you have any guides on how you have done this – did you just use the USB cable or was it via bluetooth?

    If you could give me any pointers I would be grateful!

    Thanks
    Ben

  2. Rich says:
    April 14, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Hey Ben. I use a USB cable. You need to install the synce packages to get Ubuntu and the XDA to talk to each other. I haven’t tried to get the modem working. Good luck.

  3. umar says:
    July 5, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    i am using standard 19200 bps phone modem please tell me how to set it up in ubuntu 7.04

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