Dryice Liu’s Blog

New Toys

Well I’ve got these toys for some time, but I was pretty busy these days. So here are them all:
- Blackberry 8300. After 7 years, my Simense 3568i stops working. I was planning to get some simple mobile with bluetooth and EDGE, to get the N810 online when there’s no WIFI available, because right now […]

¶ Posted 07 November 2008 § n810 § blackberry ‡ Comments (0)

infrared on FreeBSD

Now I can use birda and scmxx to connect to my mobile from FreeBSD. They also support unicode well, which is very good.
Here’s some link that I used as reference:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnokii-users/2003-04/msg00114.html
http://www.jeroen.se/articles/freebsd_palm_infrared.php

And to summary:

/usr/ports/comms/birda

ircomm -r -d /dev/cuaa1 -y /dev/ptypv (root)

/usr/ports/comms/scmxx

scmxx -d /dev/ttypv –get –sms –slot=all

BBDB, mobile, and phone

It is said bbdb-snarf-region on a region of csv can do the import, but my try doesn’t make a very good result.
I can import csv to bbdb with lookout.el and export bbdb to csv with bbdb-pilot-jwz.el. The next step will be finding ways to exchange csv with mobile and phone.