On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:11:10PM -0700, Robert Denton wrote:
> Hiya folks.
>
> The good posters over at blackberryforums.com suggested I make an appeal to
> this list for help using barry on my linux machine. I am running f7, kernel
> 2.6.21, and I own a bb 8830. I have installed barry 0.8 and I have the
> following:
>
> [ ~]$ rpm -qa | grep barry
> barry-util-0.8-1
> libbarry-0.8-1
> libbarry-devel-0.8-1
> barry-gui-0.8-1
>
> Here are the questions I have for you:
Looks good. I'm a little slow in replying here, and I see you already
have had some responses, but here's some more for completeness. :-)
> 1. What utilities are included in barry? I have found barrybackup
> but I am unaware of any others that might come along for the ride.
breset - reset all Blackberries found on the USB bus, through software
bcharge - works with charging modes, and Pearl / Classic modes.
definitely needed if you have a Pearl-like device
This has a man page.
btool - command line utility for poking around and exploring your
Blackberry's databases
This has a man page too.
ktrans and translate - utilities to convert linux usb_snoop and
Windows USB capture logs (respectively) into something readable.
These are generally of little use to the end user and may not
be installed by default.
upldif - upload LDAP LDIF data into your blackberry in the form of
contacts... will delete all existing contacts, making an
exact copy of your LDAP directory on your Blackberry
barrybackup - a GUI for making database backups of your Blackberry
> 2. Will barry allow me to charge my 8830 via USB? I ask because
> whenever I plug it in I get a warning about the USB port not having
> sufficient current.
Yes. Use bcharge. As you are using the RPMS, this should be running
automatically for you, via udev. Check your /etc/udev/rules* directory,
for a rules file for your Blackberry.
The RPMs on the sourceforge site were built for Fedora 6, so maybe
something has changed. Can you check to see if bcharge is being run
at all?
You can temporarily change your udev log settings with: (as root)
udevcontrol log_priority=debug
Then watch the logs while you plugin your Blackberry. For example:
tail -f /var/log/daemon.log
on my Debian system, that's where the udev messages appear. You should
see a "run_program" message that runs /usr/sbin/bcharge, as well as
any bcharge output messages.
When you're done, set udev logging back to err or something, since this
can slow your machine down if logging is too high:
udevcontrol log_priority=err
> 3. Will barry allow me to transfer files back and forth from my 8830?
> I'd like to be able to install things I have downloaded without
> oh-so-very-humbly asking for help from one of my windows friends.
If by transfer files, you mean loading java programs via USB, no,
Barry doesn't currently support this.
If you mean using the Blackberry as a USB media device, this should
already be happening. This is done by the kernel's usb_storage
module, and you can mount your Blackberry as a normal drive and
copy files to and from it.
Note that the usb_storage module conflicts with Barry, since you can't
use both at once. If usb_storage is loaded (see lsmod output), then
you'll need to remove it before using Barry (rmmod usb_storage).
You may also be able to use Linux's bluetooth support to talk to your
Blackberry, but I don't have a lot of experience with this.
> 4. When I launch 'barrybackup' from the command line I get the error
> 'No Blackberry devices found'. Is there something I need to do first?
bcharge has likely not been run automatically, so your device is
showing up as product ID 0006, and you want to see 0004 or 0001.
See the "lsusb -v" output for this info, and run bcharge to change
the product ID.
> Thanks for your help folks. I appreciate it, and so does my pet penguin.
:-)
- Chris
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