syncing the E680 with linux

[buhzi]

ah, now that i know that there are others from the linux camp... do you have ever tried to sync the phone with linux, maybe kde addressbook, korganizer or so?

[MrAkai]

I've tried using "Multisync" (http://multisync.sf.net) and it fails with SyncML. The next release of Multisync (called Opensync) is supposed to have a much better SyncML engine, so I'm waiting for that.

[buhzi]

for now i have not found where the E680 stores all the contacts and calendar entries in the filesystem. Does somebody knows where?

Maybe we can use it to write an own application for syncing..

[sblackett]

I have got my phone syncing with my linux box using Sync4j and the USBLAN drivers that are originally from Belcarra.

Firstly getting USBLAN working on Mandrake 10.0

I installed the 2.4.* source from my Mandrake 10.0 distribution and built it.

Then I compiled and installed the usblan stuff.

To load it I specified the prod/vend ids that got reported as unclaimed.

modprobe usblan vendor_id=0x22b8 product_id=0x600c

When I connect my phone in Modem mode the OS mounts it as an acm modem.

I just issue the standard modem command to put it into lan mode... (I am using devfs)

echo "at+mode=99" > /dev/usb/acm/0

Then in dmesg you see that it is mostly working but there is not a ifcfg file,

net.agent[2293]: register event not handled

so I made one, and after reading about someone who has an a768 working found some ip addresses that work. I think this config stuff is a little mandrake specific.
The attached file lives on my system as /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-usb0

I have attached a file showing what my dmesg looks like.

Then I can type ifup usb0 and my ifconfig has this entry:
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 22:B6:E8:06:9C:04
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:184 (184.0 b)

[sblackett]

Then Syncing with sync4j

Basically now you can follow what this guy did....

http://tud.at/programm/a768i.html

I had one more wrinkle, I got an error everytime I tried to sync
(on the Sync4J server)

org.jibx.runtime.JIBXException: Unexpanded entity reference in text at (line 83, col 9)

After writing the full logs so I could see the xml that was going back and forth I discovered that it was due to some "&" characters I had used in people's names and in some calendar events. I guess the client is probably supposed to make these into some control sequence.

Anyway now I can sync my e680 to linux without sending the data through the internet.

[dino]

Hi, I managed to sync my A780 with Evolution and KDE Adressbook on my Linux box using Multisync.

See the Article here:
http://www.troodon.org/a780/a780-linux-howto.htm