Hi,
I have a samsung X105 cell whose data (phone book etc) I need to back up. I bought a usb cable for the cell phone. My PC has a Mandrake 10.0/ Winxp dual boot. I successfully loaded the driver in winxp and used datapilot tp access data there (so no hardware problems). In Linux, when I connect the cable to a usb port, output of "/var/log/messages" yields:
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Sep 10 18:53:21 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbserial
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for PL-2303
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver pl2303
Sep 10 18:53:22 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c: Prolific PL2303 USB to serial adaptor driver v0.10
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Output of "lsmod" shows modules "usbserial" and "PL2303" loaded, so I should be able to access the cellphone data at /dev/ttyUSB0.
However, all software I've tried ("kpilot, kandy, bitpim") either hangs or shows errors whenever I try to configure them to "/dev/ttyUSB0". I even tried "ln -s /dev/pilot /dev/ttyUSB0" with no success.
Do I need to do anything else or what? Please advise
AR
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