Nokia N70 + Fedora 9 using USB

I had been looking around for quite some time to find a way of connecting my Nokia N70 to my Fedora 9 laptop to manage my Music and Pictures.

I came across this on Googling.. http://fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-166215.html . It doesnt exactly answer the problem for Fedora 9 but gave me the way..

I started by installing obexftp :

su -c 'yum -y install obexftp'

Once this is done, you can connect your phone using the USB cable and run
obexftp -u
I needed to use “su” for this operation.

It will give an output like this.. :

If USB doesn't work setup permissions in udev or run as superuser.
Found 2 USB OBEX interfaces

0 (Manufacturer: Nokia Product: Nokia N70 Serial: (null) Interface description: SYNCML-SYNC)
1 (Manufacturer: Nokia Product: Nokia N70 Serial: (null) Interface description: PC Suite Services)

Use '-u interface_number' to connect
Nothing to do. Use --help for help.


You can also use the -h tag with obexftp for info on the file directories of the phone.

This done, we need a nice GUI interface to make things easier. This is the link : http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/obexftpfrontend/obexftp-frontend-0.6.6-bin.zip

Once you’ve downloaded this, unzip it using

unzip filename

cd into the directory and run the jar file..

java -jar filename.jar

You may have to run it as superuser like I did.

The rest is easy. The GUI frontend opens. Select USB and continue.

Queries are welcome..