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Not that I’m on any of the planets I read (Planet Debian, Planet Ubuntu), but there was a MEME about the names you give machines.

Well the company I currently work for, I’ve named all the machines after greek gods. zeus, ares, apollo (more to come we hope)

And at home I’ve started naming machines after TTMNT (The teenage mutant ninja turtles) and other characters. bebop, shredder (more to come, as I have the names for proposed machines, these machines already exist). and then there are the personal machines wich are just called mainuser-machinetype. eg clifford-laptop. I know it’s unoriginal, but anyways… :p

Well as most people I have a list of things I’d like to get/have

• Decent internet (Unfortunately the best connection available in South Africa is a 4M line, and the exchange I’m connected to only have 512k lines available) (Also to get the 5 static IP’s I want (no option for just one on ADSL) the total package is going to cost around R3000p/m ) Guess I stick with iBurst for now
• Virtulisation server, I’m wanting to setup some hosting of mail and websites for my self and other people, and want to also test out virtulisation on a proper server
• NAS, I’d prefer to take a small machine (PIII/PIV) and either get a couple of USB disks or get a RAID controller. Looking at round 5TiB of storage for now, this must be easily extended Basically this is to create backups of our DVD collection (well when we build it up again) and then I can put the orig DVD’s in a safe
• MythTV server, this machine needs a couple of TVTuner cards in it, and will be used as a PVR, and we possibly need more than two DSTV decoders :/
• Nokia N810, cause I’d love to play around with Debian
• Asus EEEPC (900+), just for the heck of it

Well thats the list for now, there are a couple of other things, but I can’t remember offhand

Add following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://opensync.gforge.punktart.de/repo/opensync-0.21/ etch main

To add key for the repo, do the following:

gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net/ --recv-keys CB210090B029CB84
gpg --export CB210090B029CB84 | apt-key add -

Install the required software

sudo aptitude install libopensync-plugin-kdepim libopensync-plugin-file libopensync-plugin-synce libopensync-plugin-irmc libopensync-plugin-gnokii libopensync-plugin-syncml libopensync0 opensyncutils msynctool multisync-qad
apt-get upgrade

Then setup Msync

msynctool --addgroup e51-kde
msynctool --addmember e51-kde kdepim-sync
msynctool --addmember e51-kde syncml-obex-client

Well I have an e51, but you can call the group what ever you want.

Next is the ‘trickiest’ part. Installed plugins need to be configured. First, you have to find your phone’s MAC. Use hcitool to do that:

hcitool scan

It should return something like:

xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx PhoneName

Now, configure the syncml-obex-client:

msynctool --configure e51-kde 2

Replace the context of the configuration (should be open in separate editor after running previous command) with the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<bluetooth_address>xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</bluetooth_address>
<bluetooth_channel>10</bluetooth_channel>
<interface>0</interface>
<identifier>PC Suite</identifier>
<version>1</version>
<wbxml>1</wbxml>
<username></username>
<password></password>
<type>2</type>
<usestringtable>1</usestringtable>
<onlyreplace>0</onlyreplace>
<onlyLocaltime>0</onlyLocaltime>
<recvLimit>0</recvLimit>
<maxObjSize>0</maxObjSize>
<contact_db>Contacts</contact_db>
<calendar_db>Calendar</calendar_db>
<note_db>Notes</note_db>
</config>

Where bluetooth_address is your phone’s MAC address you just discovered.

You should be good to go now, so you should try synchronizing:

msynctool --sync e51-kde

If you are using Kontact, you will need to shut it down.

References:

Nokia E-series sync with Evolution via Bluetooth in Ubuntu

Nokia E61/E62 sync with Evolution in Kubuntu