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RPI Cable & VX6000 Adventures
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Posted by: dc3dreamer

My RPI cable for the VX200 arrived today, along with an unmarked burned CD with a nice-looking installer. I used same to install BitPim and the Drivers.

Result: Nothing. Plugging in the phone resulted in the generic "USB Device" being recognized and nothing more.

After thrashing around and reading a LOT of messages, I discovered that I needed the "FutureDial Driver". I downloaded that from FutureDial and installed it. Voila! Now it recognizes my phone and I can run BitPim.

Why weren't these on the RPI CD-ROM?

So what are the LG Electronics Modem Drivers" that the RPI disk installed? It appears to be a way to use the phone as a modem for my PC. I read about the Extended Network option (MOU) and I have that. So this would be cool.

But I cannot get this to work at all. No new modem is added to my system by installing the LG Modem drivers. I found a program C:\Program Files\LG Electronics\LG USB Modem Driver\ InstallUSB.exe and tried to launch it. It runs briefly and exits. Still no new modem.

Any thoughts?

Posted by: Never In Doubt

Not sure if this will work for you, but there are times when my 6000 cannot be recognized by my PC using the RPI USB cable. It shows as "Unknown USB device" in the Windows Hardware list.

Power cycling the phone, turn it off and back on, then plugging it back into the cable allows my computer to recognize the phone again when that happens.

Posted by: dc3dreamer

I don't have a problem with the phone being seen. That went smoothly after I installed the FutureDial drivers. It is always recognized by BitPim.

I can't get the LG to appear as a modem and thus cannot get past square one trying to use it to connect my PC to the Internet. I do have the connection profile set up per the instrucations, but it's currently hooked to the real telephone analog modem. All I need is to find the modem that's supposed to be installed by the LG Modem Drivers and switch to that (at least I think so!!).

Posted by: flipzmode

I just received my RPI cable for my 6k like 2 days ago. other than the installer not working at all (i ran installer, click what i wanted installed and it just says file not found and then closes) it works perfectly fine. i ran all 3 install things on the disc manually, and had it working in about 30 seconds! just make sure you installed all 3 things, and that you did it BEFORE hooking up your phone! usb driver, futuredial driver, and of course bitpim.

-flipz

Posted by: jason330i

Quote:

Originally posted by Never In Doubt
Not sure if this will work for you, but there are times when my 6000 cannot be recognized by my PC using the RPI USB cable. It shows as "Unknown USB device" in the Windows Hardware list.

Power cycling the phone, turn it off and back on, then plugging it back into the cable allows my computer to recognize the phone again when that happens.

that is the exact problem i have except no matter what i do, i always have an unknown usb device.

futerdial drivers, rpi drivers, no luck.

could something be wrong with my pc?

Posted by: dc3dreamer

Jason --

(1) Unplug your VX6000 cable

(2) In My Computer, Manage, Device Manager, right click on and uninstall the broken (yellow ?) USB device.

(3) Go to the FutureDial web site and download their VX6000 drivers. Install them.

(4) Reboot

(5) Plug your phone in using the cable

You should now have a COM port that maps to your phone, and be able to use BitPim.

Posted by: jason330i

Quote:

Originally posted by dc3dreamer
Jason --

(1) Unplug your VX6000 cable

(2) In My Computer, Manage, Device Manager, right click on and uninstall the broken (yellow ?) USB device.

(3) Go to the FutureDial web site and download their VX6000 drivers. Install them.

(4) Reboot

(5) Plug your phone in using the cable

You should now have a COM port that maps to your phone, and be able to use BitPim.

thanks, i tried the rpi software on another computer and it works fine. i think something is fishy with my pc's usb drivers.