Nokia 3310 Usb Data cable Connection Problem w/ gnokii

[Eneas Hunguana]

Hi everybody,

I am trying to connect a Nokia 3310 phone to my laptop using GNOKII (version
0.6.3). Since my laptot doesn't have an RS-232 serial port, I am using a Nokia
3310 USB data cable. On window$ (in which the cable is recognized as being
"Prolific USB-to-Serial Bridge DAU-9P/FBUS"), I can access the phone using
several software, including Oxygen.It works fine! 

But when it comes to Linux (Red Hat 9.0), I can't connect...I get a timeout
message when typing "#gnokii --identify"

Here is the debug output:
--------------------------------
GNOKII Version 0.6.3
LOG: debug mask is 0x1
Lockfile /var/lock/LCK..ttyUSB0 is stale. Overriding it..
phone instance config:
model: 3310
port_device: /dev/ttyUSB0
connection_type: 1
init_length: 0
serial_baudrate: 19200
serial_write_usleep: -1
hardware_handshake: 0
require_dcd: 0
smsc_timeout: 100
connect_script:
disconnect_script:
rfcomm_cn: 1
Serial device: opening device /dev/ttyUSB0
Serial device: setting speed to 115200
Serial device: setting RTS to low and DTR to high
Message sent: 0x40 / 0x0004
00 01 64 01                                     |   d
Serial write: transmitter busy, waiting
Serial write: transmitter ready
Serial write: transmitter busy, waiting
Serial write: transmitter ready
..........
Serial write: transmitter busy, waiting
Serial write: transmitter ready
Serial write: transmitter busy, waiting
Serial write: transmitter ready
SM_Block Retry - 0
Message sent: 0x40 / 0x0004
00 01 64 01                                     |   d
SM_Block Retry - 1
Message sent: 0x40 / 0x0004
00 01 64 01                                     |   d
[....]
SM_Block Retry - 1
Message sent: 0x40 / 0x0004
00 01 64 01                                     |   d
Telephone interface init failed: Command timed out.
Quitting.

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It seems the cable is detected, since dmesg shows the this lines:
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for PL-2303
usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter detected
usbserial.c: PL-2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)


Is the the problem related to the "connection" parameter in my .gnokiirc file?
(Please see it below). I tried to set the following values:
serial
dau9p
fbus (saw it in some links on the net, but gnokii does not recognize it)


This is my config file parameters values:
--------------------------
port = /dev/ttyUSB0
model = 3310
initlength = default
connection = serial
use_locking = yes
serial_baudrate = 19200
smsc_timeout = 10
bindir = /usr/local/sbin/
TELEPHONE = 12345678
debug = on
rlpdebug = off
xdebug = off
-----------------------------------

What is the problem supposed to be, and how can I solve it? Thank You in 
advance.

Regards


/Eneas