pppob(1) [debian man page]

PPPOB(1)						      General Commands Manual							  PPPOB(1)

NAME

       pppob - Barry Project's program to access the Blackberry modem for pppd

SYNOPSIS

       pppob [-l filename][-p pin][-P password][-s][-v]

DESCRIPTION

       pppob  is a program suitable for use in pppd's pty option file.	It talks to an available Blackberry and provides modem access on stdin and
       stdout.

OPTIONS

       -l filename
	      Causes verbose debug output from the -v switch to be written to filename instead of stderr.

       -p pin PIN of device to talk with.  Only needed if you have more than one Blackberry connected at once.

       -P password
	      Simplistic method to specify device password.  In a real application, this would be done using a more secure prompt.

       -s     Use Serial mode instead of the default IpModem mode.  Older Blackberries used a serial mode based on  a  similar	protocol  to  what
	      database	access	uses  for  retrieving  data.   Each packet had a size and socket number prepended to the actual modem data.  Newer
	      Blackberries have dedicated USB endpoints that behave as read/write points, and do not bother  with  this  size/socket  format,  and
	      therefore  transfer less data across the USB bus.  By default, pppob tries to use IpModem mode if proper endpoints are detected, and
	      otherwise falls back to Serial mode.  This switch skips IpModem mode entirely and tries Serial mode immediately.

       -v     Dump verbose protocol data to stderr during operation.

AUTHOR

       pppob is part of the Barry project.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry

								   May 29, 2008 							  PPPOB(1)

BIDENTIFY(1)						      General Commands Manual						      BIDENTIFY(1)

NAME

       bidentify - Barry Project's program to identify BlackBerry handhelds

SYNOPSIS

       bidentify [-B busname][-N devname][-h][-v]

DESCRIPTION

       bidentify  scans  the  USB  system for available BlackBerry devices and probes each one it finds, then sends the identifying information to
       stdout in a computer-friendly format.

OPTIONS

       -B busname
	      Specify the USB bus to search for Blackberry devices on.	This is the first number displayed in the output from the  lsusb  command,
	      such  as	002.   If  the busname is numeric on your system, 2 and 002 are equal.	See also the -N option, which can be used together
	      with this option to precisely select the device to work with.

       -N devname
	      Specify the USB device name.  This is the second number displayed in the output from the lsusb command, such as 005.  If the  device
	      name is numeric on your system, 5 and 005 are equal.  See also the -B option.

       -c     If  used	with the -m option, ESN numbers will be displayed in both hex and decimal formats where possible.  If -m is not used, this
	      option has no effect.

       -m     Also show the device's ESN / MEID / IMEI number.	This requires desktop database access, so is an option.   It  will  only  work	on
	      devices that have no password.

       -v     Dump verbose protocol data during operation.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

RETURN STATUS

       If  bidentify  detects  a  BlackBerry device, but cannot access it for some reason, it will write an error message to stderr describing the
       access problem, and return a count of the number of such failed devices as the error code.  A return code of 0 means there were	no  Black-
       Berry devices found that could not be probed.

       In the event of a fatal error, the message will be written to stderr, with an error code of 1.

AUTHOR

       bidentify is part of the Barry project.	This manual page was written by Chris Frey.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry

								 February 24, 2011						      BIDENTIFY(1)