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Contribute to wikis!

Vodafone RnD has developed a new application that permits users to contribute to articles in wikis. You can view and edit articles, and also upload photos from your device. Try this application on Betavine and contribute to this open source project over at the Forge.

Betavine Sponsors BarCampBrighton3

The Betavine team will buying everyone dinner on Saturday night, at the 3rd annual BarCampBrigton on the 6th and 7th of September.

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SIP Stack for Mobile Devices Released

Vodafone R&D and “Instrumentación y Componentes (Inycom)”, an Aragon-based Technological company have just released a SIP Stack for mobile devices which performs for you the 3GPP procedures for registering, instant messaging and other services, read more here. It exposes the IMS functionality by a high level API, hiding the technology complexity and enabling you to develop 3rd party IMS applications in an easy way. You can either view the project page on Betavine or the actual developer project over at the Forge.

Betavine 2.0 goes live!

We've just released version 2.0 of betavine.net. In December we decided to re-write the whole platform using standard open source components. This gives us greater flexibility, allowing us to develop new site features for you to use.

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Campus Life Competition Announcement

The Vodafone UK Student Campus Life competition has now come to a close. The 3 winners have been announced.

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Nokia WidSets Competition Announcement

The Nokia Student WidSets competition has now come to a close. The Widsets team have announced the three lucky winners with more details on our site.

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Betavine now linked to Vodafone Live! Spain

We are pleased to announce the first of a series steps we are taking to help promote Betavine apps to a wider audience. As of lunchtime today, there is now a link to betavine.mobi in the Applications area on Vodafone Live! in Spain. This is a fantastic opportunity that opens up Betavine to over 16 million mobile users! If this proves popular we hope to link with other countries in the near future.

The homepage displayed to users accessing the site from Vodafone Live! contains a set of 'Featured Applications'. If you would like to showcase your application via this channel, please email webmaster@betavine.net.

Betavine Hosts Vodafone Apps

Vodafone Global are launching a suite of applications that work on a range of phones. Due to the way apps are hosted, and our inbuilt feedback and deployment system they have chosen Betavine to partner with.

Why not have a look at some of the apps!

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UKE
UKE
ERROR ! Need Help please
Hi all,

I did install " Vodafone Mobile Connect Card Driver for Linux " Ver. 1.99.17 on a Asus eeePC. Its a standard 4G (701) with a Novatel MC950D Stick

Installation with Synaptic went fine as described with no erros.
At startup the application I got following error message:

Device setup not completed
Your device " Novatel MC950D" is not properly registered with the kernel. Vodafone Mobile Connect card driver for Linux needs at least two serial ports to communicate with your Novatel MC950D The Program includes a set of udev rules plus some binaries that make sure that your device is always recognised properly. If You've installedfrom source, the make sure to copy th erelevant files in the contrib dir.


What does this mean, What can I do here to get this running

thanks
UKE
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andrewbird
andrewbird
Sphere Systems
RE: ERROR ! Need Help please as a reply to UKE
Hi UKE,
It sounds like your Novatel MC950D is running in CD storage mode. I haven't got one of these myself, but if it's anything like some of the other manufacturer's devices, it will need a special command to flip it into modem mode each time it's inserted. That can be automated with udev hence the comment in the error message.
I can see that the VMC package seems to support the Ovation device, specifically the one with the vendor id = 0x1410 and the product id 0x4400. Does that match your device?


Hope it helps,


Andrew



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UKE
UKE
RE: ERROR ! Need Help please as a reply to andrewbird
Andrew, yes You're right

a "lsusb" brings back:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1410:4400

since I am not familiar with udev and lsusb what can I do now ?

cheers UKE
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andrewbird
andrewbird
Sphere Systems
RE: ERROR ! Need Help please as a reply to UKE
Hi UKE,
Well that suggests that the device is being switched from storage mode properly. Can you check if there are any device files being made for it in /dev? They should be called /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1.

Best regards,



Andrew
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UKE
UKE
RE: ERROR ! Need Help please as a reply to andrewbird
Andrew,

there are no devices called /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1.

There are in fact lots of tty's but none with the name you mentioned

regards

UKE
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andrewbird
andrewbird
Sphere Systems
RE: ERROR ! Need Help please as a reply to UKE
Hi UKE,
I should be getting my hands on one of these devices tomorrow, so I'll be able to help you better, but in the meantime it looks like the usbserial driver has not been loaded/loaded with the correct parameters. You could try loading it yourself before starting up the VMC application. Try doing this as root;

modprobe -r usbserial
modprobe vendor=0x1410 product=0x4400

Best regards,


Andrew


UKE:
Andrew,

there are no devices called /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1.

There are in fact lots of tty's but none with the name you mentioned

regards

UKE
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andrewbird
andrewbird
Sphere Systems
RE: ERROR ! Need Help please as a reply to andrewbird
Hi UKE,
I have a fix for you. Edit the /usr/sbin/ovation.sh script and make it look like this.


#/bin/bash

/sbin/modprobe -r option
eject /dev/novatel-storage

/sbin/modprobe -a option
echo "0x1410 0x4400" > /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/option1/new_id


Now reboot and next time you insert the card it will be configured correctly. The start the VMC app and it should be found.


Hope that helps


Andrew
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