0.6.14 with Nokia 7250i and CA-42 cable fails to connect

[Arthur Marsh]

Hi, I've looked on the gnokii web site, and have failed to find a 
complete solution to get the Nokia 7250i to talk to this computer 
through a genuine Nokia CA-42 cable.

I'm running Debian unstable with gnokii 0.6.14-1 and Linux kernel 2.6.18 
built from linux-source 2.6.18-8 (current to kernel.org 2.6.18.5).

As suggested at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3251

I did the following before connecting the CA-42 cable to the computer:

modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0421 product=0x0802

/var/log/messages reported:

Dec 18 20:21:47 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbserial
Dec 18 20:21:47 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
Serial support registered for generic
Dec 18 20:21:47 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver 
usbserial_generic
Dec 18 20:21:47 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB 
Serial Driver core
Dec 18 20:22:31 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device 
using ohci_hcd and address 6
Dec 18 20:22:32 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 
1 choice
Dec 18 20:22:32 localhost kernel: usbserial_generic 2-2:1.0: generic 
converter detected
Dec 18 20:22:32 localhost kernel: usbserial_generic: probe of 2-2:1.0 
failed with error -5
Dec 18 20:22:32 localhost kernel: usbserial_generic 2-2:1.1: generic 
converter detected
Dec 18 20:22:32 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: generic converter now 
attached to ttyUSB0
Dec 18 20:22:33 localhost kernel: cdc_acm: probe of 2-2:1.0 failed with 
error -16
Dec 18 20:22:33 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver cdc_acm
Dec 18 20:22:33 localhost kernel: drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: v0.25:USB 
Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

/dev/ttyUSB0 was created:

crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188,  0 2006-12-18 20:22 /dev/ttyUSB0

When I ran:

$ gnokii --identify
GNOKII Version 0.6.14
Lockfile /var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 is stale. Overriding it..
Overriding failed, please check the permissions.
Cannot lock device.
Lock file error. Exiting.
Command is still being executed.

When I added a ~/.gnokiirc containing:

serial=/dev/ttyUSB0

and re-ran gnokii --identify, I received the error:

Orphaned line: serial=/dev/ttyUSB0

When I added

[global]

to the start of ~/.gnokiirc I received the error:

No [global] section in /home/amarsh04/.gnokiirc config file.

Any suggestions on what to do?

Regards,

Arthur.