obexftp not working with irda

[Rafał Próchniak]

(Ubuntu Hoary + backports, obexftp 0.10.6-1, mobile phone - Siemens S65, built in irda (SiS 650 motherboard) with standard sir)

It seems that obexftp does not work with irda

(Ubuntu Hoary + backports, obexftp 0.10.6-1, mobile phone - Siemens S65, built in irda (SiS 650 motherboard) with standard sir)

It seems that obexftp does not work with irda. This was what I got:

$obexftp -i -l /
No custom transport
Connecting...failed: connect
Still trying to connect
Connecting...failed: connect
Still trying to connect
Connecting...failed: connect
Still trying to connect

At the same time irdadump showed my mobile and multisync and scmxx worked fine.

I have found it somewhere (openobex mailing list?) that obexftp uses bluetooth by default (someone straced it, and so did I):

Part of strace output:
write(2, "Connecting...", 13) = 13
socket(PF_BLUETOOTH, SOCK_STREAM, 3) = 4
bind(4, {sa_family=AF_UNSPEC, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 10) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
close(4) = 0
socket(PF_BLUETOOTH, SOCK_STREAM, 3) = 4
bind(4, {sa_family=AF_UNSPEC, sa_data="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"}, 10) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
close(4) = 0
write(2, "failed: connect\n", 16) = 16
write(2, "Still trying to connect\n", 24) = 24

Complete output is available here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1325

So I compiled obexftp from sources (I apt-got sources from the package, not from project's website) without bluetooth support and it works:

$ /opt/bin/obexftp -i -l
No custom transport
Connecting...done
Receiving (null)... <?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE folder-listing SYSTEM "obex-folder-listing.dtd">
<folder-listing version="1.0">
   <folder name="Data" modified="20040101T000000" user-perm="RWD" group-perm="W" />
   <folder name="MMCard" modified="20040115T000000" user-perm="RWD" group-perm="W" />
</folder-listing>
done
Disconnecting...done

(Maybe this is not correct output, but compile was not clean, showing some xml-related errors). My custom obexftp sends files, so it works fine for me.

I can't test obexftp with bluetooth, as I don't have it (only in my phone...). Is there a way to have this package recongize irda/bluetooth at runtime? Is breezy package any better?

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

I can tell you that that is the usual output of obexftp, using it in Ubuntu as well as Gentoo

[Jonathan Carter (jonathan)]

Have you upgraded to the breezy or latest dapper (6.06 LTS) release?

Have the bug persisted?

[Rafał Próchniak (burlap)]

It worked fine in breezy, so far in dapper irda does not work at all (reported as https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/49828)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

49828 is fixed now, how about this bug then?

[Rafał Próchniak (burlap)]

It works ok, the bug is fixed.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

marking the bug fixed