Sony Ericsson w600i and Linux


I will add more updates as they come. I was able to connect to GPRS/Edge using Bluetooth and the USB Cable using Fedora Core 5.

I'll post my steps shortly.. Needed to create an entry for the report.
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These steps are for Fedora Core 5 and the w600i.

You need to install all the bluez and gnome-bluetooth files. Fire up yum search to check those out.

GPRS/Edge Connection Over Bluetooth


• service bluetooth start

  
  
• Turn on bluetooth and make your phone discoverable
  

• hcitool scan

  
  
• Make a note of the mac address of your phone
  
• I edited my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file.. don't know if that made any difference



rfcomm0 {
          # Automatically bind the device at startup
          bind no;
  
          # Bluetooth address of the device
          #real mac here
                        device 00:00:00:00:00:00;
  
          # RFCOMM channel for the connection
          channel 1

          # Description of the connection
          comment "W600i";
  }



• I created a little shell script to start up the connection as needed. I don't want to always connect when I plug in my dongle. I'm missing some bnep steps. I will add later
  

  
  #!/bin/bash
  /sbin/modprobe pand
  /usr/sbin/pand --connect 00:00:00:00:00:00 & #real mac here
  /bin/sleep 10 &
  /sbin/ifconfig bnep0 up &
  /sbin/dhclient bnep0 &
  

  
  

GPRS/Edge Connection Over USB Cable

• I used NetworkManager to simplify the ppp connection and treat it like a regular modem
  
• Plug in the USB Cable and connect it to your phone. Open up a console and run dmesg
  

  
  cdc_acm 1-1:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
  cdc_acm 1-1:1.3: ttyACM1: USB ACM device
  

  
  
• Goto the Network Configuration... System--Administration--Network
  
• Add a new Connection by selecting New.. Modem Connection.. click on Forward
  
• For the phone number I typed in *99***1# that's the Profile for my provider for Edge
  
• Provider.. preferably you're cell providers name.. username and password can be anything.. at least for Cingular
  
• Forward.. then apply
  
• File Save
  
• in the console look for the file ifcfg-Providername
  

  
  cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
  

  
  
• Edit the file. My MODEMPORT= was wrong. It was pointed to /dev/input/ttyACM0 that didn't exist
  

  
  MODEMPORT=/dev/ttyACM0
  

  
  
• Now tou should be able to left click on the NetworkManager icon in the notification panel and under Dialup Connections there will be a connect and a disconnect for your provider.
  

Let me know how your experience differs