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DaveC - 22 Dec 2004 00:36 GMT

Nokia currently has wireless modem drivers only for Windows OS's for the
Nokia 6015i.

Are there any public-domain drivers for OS X available? Sometimes a driver
will work for several models of phone, so if there are OS X drivers for other
Nokia phones, I'd appreciate knowing about those, too.

Thanks,

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steve - 22 Dec 2004 01:24 GMT

> Nokia currently has wireless modem drivers only for Windows OS's for the
> Nokia 6015i.
>
> Are there any public-domain drivers for OS X available? Sometimes a driver
> will work for several models of phone, so if there are OS X drivers for other
> Nokia phones, I'd appreciate knowing about those, too.

Have you tried the Nokia Infrared driver that came with OS X? I have a
sony ericsson cell phone that works great with the corresponding IR
driver even though it is not for my specific phone.

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DaveC - 22 Dec 2004 08:00 GMT

> Have you tried the Nokia Infrared driver that came with OS X? I have a
> sony ericsson cell phone that works great with the corresponding IR
> driver even though it is not for my specific phone.

The Nokia 6015i manual makes no mention of infrared capability. I wish it was
IR capable.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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steve - 22 Dec 2004 08:30 GMT

> > Have you tried the Nokia Infrared driver that came with OS X? I have a
> > sony ericsson cell phone that works great with the corresponding IR
> > driver even though it is not for my specific phone.
>
> The Nokia 6015i manual makes no mention of infrared capability. I wish it was
> IR capable.

I use that driver with a bluetooth phone. Anyway, have you tried any of
the Nokia drivers you have?

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DaveC - 22 Dec 2004 08:47 GMT

> Anyway, have you tried any of the Nokia drivers you have?

Have none. I will be looking for and experimenting with Mac X drivers, as I
discover them. I was asking here to see if anyone had tried any of them and
could impart some personal experience, and recommendations.

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Simon Slavin - 24 Dec 2004 21:22 GMT

On 22/12/2004, DaveC wrote in message
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> > Anyway, have you tried any of the Nokia drivers you have?
>
> Have none. I will be looking for and experimenting with Mac X drivers,
> as I discover them. I was asking here to see if anyone had tried any of
> them and could impart some personal experience, and recommendations.

He means that there are Nokia drivers which come with OS X.
Try them, even it they're apparently for the wrong Nokia phone.

If nothing you have works, try

http://www.taniwha.org.uk/

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DaveC - 22 Dec 2004 08:49 GMT

> I use that driver with a bluetooth phone

How are you able to use an IR driver to drive the bluetooth interface? I
thought that a driver works only with the hardware it was written for.

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steve - 22 Dec 2004 17:10 GMT

> > I use that driver with a bluetooth phone
>
> How are you able to use an IR driver to drive the bluetooth interface? I
> thought that a driver works only with the hardware it was written for.

It doesn't work likke that. Modem drivers have info about modems, as
far as what the interface is that's handled by the OS, AFAIK.

Just try to set it it up first and ask questions later. There are
several Nokia drivers on my HD, and they are listed in the drop down
menu in Internet Connect/Configurations/Edit Configuarations/Modem.

What interface is it?

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Ron Parsons - 22 Dec 2004 16:37 GMT

>> > Have you tried the Nokia Infrared driver that came with OS X? I have a
>> > sony ericsson cell phone that works great with the corresponding IR
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>I use that driver with a bluetooth phone. Anyway, have you tried any of
>the Nokia drivers you have?

I found the best information on using my Bluetooth 6310i on the AT&T
Wireless web site.

It's mostly just setting up Internet Connect with a dummy Nokia PC Suite
name and then you have two choices, use it like a regular modem or
connect directly to the GSM service. There really aren't any drivers
involved.

To move data from Address Book to the 6310i, I use Phone Manager.

I don't go the other way for while Phone Manager combines all the parts
of an address or phone number in a way that makes the Nokia happy, the
phone makes it all one blob which goes doesn't get separated going back
to Address Book.

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