Synchronizing Nokia 6600 with Multisync over Bluetooth

These instructions are based on:

• http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~leonard/linux-n6600-howto.html
• http://www.multisync.org/wiki/index.php?Nokia6600Instructions

They cover some aspects in details, like kernel parameters for ppp and bluetooth, so I just skip them here.

Part 1: IP-over-Bluetooth connection

Software needed

For the Nokia 6600 phone:

• gnubox

The following packages need to be installed on the linux box:

• ppp
• bluez-libs
• bluez-utils
• OpenOBEX (to transfer gnubox to the phone)

Installation

Install ppp as described in the BLFS book.

Install bluez-libs and bluez-utils as usual:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
 make &&
 make install

The first instructions listed above explains how the phone has to be configured and how the connection can be established the first time. Here is my final bluetooth-init-script: bluetooth.init

In order to forward the connections from the phone to my router, I use the following iptables rules, which are executed at the end of my firewall script:

 # Settings for device ppp0
 iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -m state --state NEW -s 10.0.0.2 -j ACCEPT
 iptables -A OUTPUT -o ppp0 -m state --state NEW -d 10.0.0.2 -j ACCEPT
 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -m state --state NEW -s 10.0.0.2 -j MASQUERADE
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Part 2: Multisync

Software needed

• wbxml2 (patched for Symbian Nokia)
• multisync (grab latest CVS snapshot)