So, after discovering I had the irda port disabled in BIOS, I managed
to get something out of irdadump; but nothing from the phone.
Apparently this isn’t going to work though, this
page informs me that the
correct driver is only included in the 2.6.12 kernel, and
unfortunately Hoary only runs 2.6.10. I’d upgrade to the Breezy
preview but my workmate has just discovered an awesome bug in which
/dev/input is deleted at startup, which causes X to fail because
there’s no /dev/input/mice – creating /dev/input, restarting
udev, and restarting gdm fixes it… but that’s a world of hurt I
really don’t care to put myself into.
So instead I found the place where my old phone can copy contacts from
memory to SIM, and put them all into my new phone. Unfortunately it
decided not to keep the multiple-number contacts as a single contact,
and expand them all, so now I have various people listed two or three
times with their home and mobile and work numbers all separate.
Loves the technology!