August 2007

Recently my uncle bought a Nokia N70 music edition phone and wanted to transfer mp3, pictures, etc. I had a nice time playing around with this nokia N70 mobile, last weekend.

As a GNU/Linux freak, I have only Debian running in my laptop and feared that these Nokia guys will demand to install Nokia PC Suite software in order to do any kind of transfer to the Nokia phone. I had a really tough time. Initially I thought as soon as I connect the USB data cable the of the Nokia mobile it will be identified as a memory stick device in GNU/Linux as my Sony Ericsson W700i does, which will enable me to transfer files as I do in a USB memory device, but that was not the case. I could sense that the device /dev/ttyACM0 is somehow identified by GNU/Linux but it is not getting mounted. I tried mounting it with "$ sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/ttyACM0 /mnt" but in vain, my Debian box complained saying /dev/ttyACM0 was not a block device.