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Gammu open source cell phone synchronization tool (NewsForge)
NewsForge reviews
Gammu. "Gammu is a nice cell phone management tool that simply
works. It is open source, stable, intelligent, feature-rich, complex, and
at the same time it is fun to experiment with. The Wammu interface,
however, will have to reach a stable 1.0 release before I consider it to be
a reasonable competitor to any of the commercial counterparts available for
Windows. Because of the time and fiddling required to make everything work,
I recommend this software mainly to experienced Linux users."
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Gammu open source cell phone synchronization tool (NewsForge) Posted Feb 27, 2005 20:40 UTC (Sun) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link] I'm not the only one who thinks that "simply works" and "Because of the time and fiddling required to make everything work" don't make sense in a description of the same piece of software, right?
Gammu open source cell phone synchronization tool (NewsForge) Posted Feb 28, 2005 3:12 UTC (Mon) by bajw (guest, #11712) [Link] Sorry, but you may be (the only one).For everybody who is not a programmer, software is a tool. Like any other tool, it is best when intuitive and not requiring a lot of learning. For those doctors, lawyers, professors, artists, bricklayers, and plumbers who spend their lives trying to do work, your opinion might look like a limited view from a rather disconnected perspective. They should not need to learn *your* work any more than you should need to learn all of theirs. That's what society and its division of labor is all about. $.02
Gammu open source cell phone synchronization tool (NewsForge) Posted Feb 28, 2005 5:26 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] umm...
you might have misunderstood his question.
I agree with his sentiment that the two don't belong in the same review, but then that's only because nothing ever "just works". :-)
This package is a case in point. It does work, but it isn't exactly a ride in a limo either.
By the way, if anyone else has a Motorola V180 phone and is wondering whether they can use the little USB port on top to talk to their Linux box, the answer is yes. This package and kmobiletools both work. You need to have the cdc_acm module available, since the phone acts as an ACM modem. In your .gammurc file you need to put:
port = /dev/mobile
/dev/mobile needs to be a character device, major 166 and minor 0, or a symlink to a device of that spec. If you use udev, it may come up automatically although I can't by any means guarantee it. On my Slackware 10.1 box I had to add this line to /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules:
BUS="usb", SYSFS_product="Motorola Phone (V180ENS)", NAME="mobile", MODE="0666"
Change the MODE parameter to your liking, but make sure you can read and write to it from whatever user is running gammu or kmobiletools.
In kmobiletools, choose the Motorola phone option and the CKPD dialing system.
Enjoy...
Gammu open source cell phone synchronization tool (NewsForge) Posted Feb 28, 2005 10:20 UTC (Mon) by andka (subscriber, #974) [Link] I think "simply works" refers to Gammu (the command line interface)and "time and fiddling required" refers to Wammu, a GUI frontend to Gammu. That's how I read it anyway.
/Andreas
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