Sony Ericsson usb-serial cable
Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:17:15 PM

First when the cable was connected nothing happened, so I knew I had to go a little bit deeper. dmesg showed that "something" usb was connected, but not linked to any device in the system. I left the research there because of other projects, but when I came back to install my scanner I was shocked when two devices were found, and one of those was something like "ArkMicro USB-UART Controller". I knew that was the generic usb-serial converter because ArkMicro was the name given for the company that makes those chips in the installation driver for Windows. Along with the name, there was also the hex number for the vendor and the product! so that was a relief. After a google search and a su, I tried:
# modprobe usbserial vendor=0x6547 product=0x0232
And no problem! I could check that the cable was there in /dev/ttyUSB0, but I have to check the modem connection yet.*
I could not do that because I went to pick my new P800 at the store and as I have just arrived, I'm still playing with it, but I have to say that the support for the SyncStation seems perfect, but I could not find the phone with any of the syncronization programs that came with SuSE. Well... going a little bit deeper doesn't harm anyone.
* I read somewhere that the ArkMicro driver for this cable will be supported in the kernel in the next version (2.6.17), so it won't be too long before everyone can use the cable almost with no problem.













ViviDee # Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:36:36 PM