Gnokii-Infrared-HowTo
Thomas Schneider, ts-ml@dev-thomynet.de
Version: 1.04, 04 Aug 1999
This document describes how to use the infrared-function of gnokii
with Nokia 6110, 6130 and 6150 models
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Table of Contents
1. Preamble
1.1 Copyright
1.2 Credits
1.3 Comments
1.4 Latest version of this document
2. Introduction
3. Installation
3.1 What Gnokii needs for communication over infrared
3.2 Installing and Configuring the Software
4. Mobiles and their software-version
4.1 Get software-version of your phone
4.2 Tested phone-software-version
5. PC-Hardware and Configuration
5.1 Laptops - who work with gnokii
5.1.1 DELL Inspiron 7000 A366LT
5.1.2 DELL Latitude LM 166
5.1.3 DELL Latitude D266XT w/ C/Dock
5.1.4 Fujitsu Lifebook B110 'Biblo' Laptop
5.1.5 Gericom (Network) Notebook with SIR-Infrared
5.1.6 IBM Thinkpad 390
5.1.7 IBM Thinkpad 600
5.1.8 Toshiba Libretto 70CT
5.2 Laptops - who don't work
5.3 Mainboards - who work with gnokii
5.3.1 ASUS ????
5.4 Mainboards - who don't work with gnokii
5.5 External Adapters - who work with gnokii
5.6 External Adapters - who don't work with gnokii
5.6.1 Tekram IR210B
6. Gnokii over infrared versus LINUX-IRDA
7. FAQ
8. Appendix A: COM-Port-Table
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1. Preamble
1.1. Copyright
Copyright Thomas Schneider 1999
You may redistribute and/or modify this document as long as you comply
with the terms of the GNU General Public Licence, version 2 or later.
1.2. Credits
Special thanks go to Hugh Blemings and Pavel Janik, they are the
maintainer of gnokii, for the good work. Also to Colin Paton for his
mail with description connection establishment over infrared.
1.3. Comments
Do not hesitate to tell me any thing you think will help make this
document better. I will examine your critics thoroughly. Do not
hesitate as well to ask me any questions related to topics discussed
here. I will be more than happy to answer them, as they may help me
further improve this document. (-- Translator note: If the English is
ugly, well then that goes to me!--)
Note:If you have any big problems or other questions to gnokii -
please mail to gnokii-mailinglist and not to me! For more details:
http://www.gnokii.org/
1.4. Latest version of this document
You can find the latest version of this document in the gnokii-
distribution under: http://www.gnokii.org/ or in the web on
http://www.dev-thomynet.de/nokworld/gnokii-infrared-howto/ .
2. Introduction
Gnokii is a suite of programs what deal with some mobilephones from
NOKIA (http://www.nokia.com ).
This document is the guide to use gnokii over infrared. It is not the
general gnokii-userguide and contains no part of protocol. This document
covers only Nokia 6110, Nokia 6130 and Nokia 6150 models, as they have
own IrDA stack, that is incompatible with standard stacks on various
operating systems.
3. Installation
You can get gnokii from gnokiis-homepage:
o http://www.gnokii.org/
Gnokii-package is available in some different formats: rpm and tgz.
To install the tgz unpack the package with
tar xvzf filename
The first address after unpack is file README in dir gnokii - all
important parts you can read in it.
3.1. What Gnokii needs for communication over infrared
For a long time gnokii contains everything that you need in software
for infrared-communication.
On the other side you need some hardware:
1. Nokia mobile phone with infrared-port. The phone models are: 6110,
6130, 6150
2. Infrared-port on your pc or notebook. In moment only SIR works
with gnokii, because phones are limited to 115200 bps.
3.2. Installing and Configuring the Software
All steps needed to install and configure gnokii are described in
README. Here is the short way for configure infrared with gnokii:
1. Copy the file sample/gnokiirc to your homedir.
mkdir -p ~/.config/gnokii
cp Docs/sample/gnokiirc ~/.config/gnokii/config
2. Edit the config file:
port = /dev/ttyS1 # Set this to the port where you infrared-equipment is connected.
model = 6150 # Set up to your model.
connection = infrared # If you want connection over cable set this to serial.
3. Make the complete gnokii-software with make in gnokii-dir.
Thats all! If you use infrared in the config all parts of the gnokii-
distribution use communication over infrared! This parts are in
moment:
1. gnokii
2. xgnokii
3. gnokiid
4. smsd
5. gnocky (which is not a part of gnokii distribution)
Also any other third party software using libgnokii can do it.
4. Mobiles and their software-version
In all tested situations the software from your phone is not the
problem if you can't connect it over infrared. The problem in such
situations was the pc-equipment or the pc-configuration. If you have
problems please look first in ``pc-section''.
4.1. Get software-version of your phone
To get the software-version from your phone press in idle-mode:
*#0000#
or
*#9999#
4.2. Tested phone-software-version
1. 6110
o V 4.73, 22-04-98, NSE-3
o V 5.24, 14-09-98, NSE-3
2. 6130
o V 4.11, 10-06-98, NSK-3
2. 6150
o V 4.01, 23-09-98, NSM-1
o V 4.12, 02-12-98, NSM-1
o V 5.02, 02-02-99, NSM-1
5. PC-Hardware and Configuration
This is the most cause for some problems. In moment gnokii works only
with SIR- equipment and not with FIR-eqipment. One reason for this is,
what phone-speed is limited to 115200 bps. If you have any problems
with your equipment read the following parts. Adapters can be the
following:
o Internal Adapters
+ Serial Adapters
- SIR
- FIR
+ Parallel Adapters
- SIR
- FIR
o External Adapters
+ Serial Adapters (including USB adapters)
- SIR
- FIR
+ USB Adapters
- SIR
- FIR
+ Parallel Adapters
- SIR
- FIR
Mosts laptops have an internal infrared-port. Some motherboards - ASUS
for example - have also a infrared-connector. On this boards you must
buy a little infrared-transmitter to use infrared-connections.
It is very difficult to describe all parts of configuration. On this
reason this HowTo list all tested laptops and other hardware in each
section.
Note that probably only internal adapters and serial adapters will work in
the described configurations in this HOWTO.
5.1. Laptops - who work with gnokii
Short list:
o ``DELL Inspiron 7000 A366LT''
o ``DELL Latitude LM 166''
o ``DELL Latitude D266XT w/ C/Dock''
o ``Fujitsu Lifebook B110 'Biblo' Laptop''
o ``Gericom (Network) Notebook with SIR-Infrared''
o ``IBM Thinkpad 390''
o ``IBM Thinkpad 600''
o ``Toshiba Libretto 70CT''
5.1.1. DELL Inspiron 7000 A366LT
o BIOS-Version : Phoenix BIOS 4.0, Release: 6.0
o CPU : Mobile Pentium II, MMX, 366MHz, BIOS Rev A10 (037A)
o Memory : 256 MByte
o Kernel : 2.2.5
o Distibution : SuSE 6.1 (german version)
o reported from : Thomas Schneider < ts-ml@dev-thomynet.de >
o BIOS-Menu : System Devices: Infrared Port: Customized: SIR,
2F8, IRQ3
o Configuration : In BIOS you can configure many thinks for the
internal-infrared-port. First you have some choices: SIR or FIR or
AUTO. All kinds are tested and works - also FIR! For the COM-Port
you must set address in hex and irq. For FIR and AUTO you must also
DMA. If you have problems with address/irq look in ``COM-PORT-
Table''. Tested with all possibillity com-port from 1 to 4 and
their default irqs - no problems. DMA was set in all test to: 3.
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.2. DELL Latitude LM 166
o BIOS-Version : Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0
o CPU : Mobile Pentium, MMX, 166MHz
o Memory : 40 MByte
o Kernel : 2.2.5
o Distibution : SuSE 6.1 (german version)
o reported from : Thomas Schneider < ts-ml@dev-thomynet.de >
o BIOS-Menu : Peripherals: Integrated Peripherals: Infrared: COM2
o Configuration : You must enable in BIOS the internal-infrared-port
and must setup the COM-Port on which the internal ir-adapter should
work. If you want what infrared use COM2 you must set it here for
example.
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.3. DELL Latitude D266XT w/ C/Dock
o BIOS-Version : ????
o CPU : ????
o Memory : ????
o Kernel : ????
o Distibution : ????
o reported from : Stig-rjan Smelror < Stig.Orjan.Smelror@winther.net
> on 26. July to gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : Peripherals: Integrated Peripherals: Infrared: COM2
o Configuration : You must enable in BIOS the internal-infrared-port
and must setup the COM-Port on which the internal ir-adapter should
work. If you want what infrared use COM2 you must set it here for
example.
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.4. Fujitsu Lifebook B110 'Biblo' Laptop
o BIOS-Version : PhoenixBIOS v1.09 10/28/1998
o CPU : 233 MMX
o Memory : 32 MByte
o Kernel : 2.2.5-15
o Distibution : Redhat 6.0
o reported from : Tuomas Salo < tuomas@optinet.fi > on 28. July to
gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : ????
o Configuration : Serial B: Mode IrDA (not FIR), 3F8 IRQ 4
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.5. Gericom (Network) Notebook with SIR-Infrared
o BIOS-Version : SystemSoft SCU For Intel 430TX/440BX
o CPU : 233 MMX
o Memory : ????
o Kernel : ????
o Distibution : ????
o reported from : Marcel Holtmann < marcel@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de > on
22. July to gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : Components/COM Ports
o Configuration : COM A: COM1, 3F8, IRQ4 (Standard Serial for
Cable or somthing else) COM B: COM2, 2F8, IRQ3 (Bulit in IR
Port) Mode for COM B: IrDA (HPSIR)
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.6. IBM Thinkpad 390
o BIOS-Version : V1.0 R01-A7
o CPU : 233 MMX
o Memory : 32 MByte
o Kernel : 2.2.5-15
o Distibution : Redhat 6.0
o reported from : Mario Viljac < Mario.Viljac@znanost.hr > on 22.
July to gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : Config->Advanced Setup
o Configuration : IR-port must be enabled, set also COM-Address and
IRQ. If you have problems with address/irq look in ``COM-PORT-
Table''.
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.7. IBM Thinkpad 600
o BIOS-Version : ????
o CPU : ????
o Memory : ????
o Kernel : ????
o Distibution : ????
o reported from : Tuomas Mttnen < maattanen@iki.fi > on 06. July to
gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : ????
o Configuration : ????
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.1.8. Toshiba Libretto 70CT
o BIOS-Version : 6.20
o CPU : Intel P120MMX
o Memory : 32 MByte
o Kernel : 2.0.36
o Distibution : Red Hat 5.2
o reported from : Patrick Robbe < probbe@mail.dotcom.fr > on 30. July
to gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : ????
o Configuration : Infrared port (COM2) 2F8h / IRQ3, mode IrDA
compatible.
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.2. Laptops - who don't work
No mails for this part in moment.
5.3. Mainboards - who work with gnokii
Short list:
o ``ASUS ????''
5.3.1. ASUS ????
o BIOS-Version : ????
o CPU : ????
o Memory : ????
o Kernel : ????
o Distibution : ????
o reported from : mail from Victor L. Belov on 06. July to gnokii-ml
o BIOS-Menu : ????
o Configuration : ????
o Known Problems: no problems known yet
o Note : -
5.4. Mainboards - who don't work with gnokii
No mails for this part in moment.
5.5. External Adapters - who work with gnokii
No mails for this part in moment.
5.6. External Adapters - who don't work with gnokii
Short list:
o ``Tekram IR210B''
5.6.1. Tekram IR210B
o BIOS-Version : ????
o CPU : ????
o Memory : ????
o Kernel : ????
o Distibution : ????
o reported from : Any mails from some peopel.
o BIOS-Menu : ????
o Configuration : ????
o Known Problems: don't work
o Note : selfpowered over com-port Must be tested - mail to
gnokii-ml.
6. Gnokii over infrared versus LINUX-IRDA
You can not use gnokii over infrared and linux-irda at the same time.
If you want use gnokiis ir-communication you must put linux-irda off.
If you want use linux-irda you must close all gnokii-applications what
use the infrared-port in moment. Note, that this applies only against
Nokia 6110, Nokia 6130 and Nokia 6150 mobile phones.
7. FAQ
No FAQ is available in moment.
8. Appendix A: COM-Port-Table
Here you find the default addresses and irq's from com1 up to com4 -
or ttyS0 up to ttyS3.
o ttyS0: 0x3F8, IRQ: 4, COM1
o ttyS1: 0x2F8, IRQ: 3, COM2
o ttyS2: 0x3E8, IRQ: 4, COM3
o ttyS3: 0x2E8, IRQ: 3, COM4
