Operating system name and version: Windows XP Sp2
Version of smsd: 3.1.6
Smsd installed from: local disk
Name and model of a modem / phone: Huawei e220
Interface: USB

Hi all,

I am novice in unix/linux environment, so I want to install this tool on Windows environment.

This are the steps I took to install smstool
1) install cygwin
2) copy file smstools3-3.1.6.tar.gz to c:\cygwin\usr\src
3) start cygwin bash shell
4) type command tar -xzf smstools*.tar.gz

I got error messages like these
tar <child> : smstools*.tar: Cannot open: no such file or directory
tar <child> : error is not recoverable : existing now
tar Child returned status 2
tar : existing with failure status due to previous errors

Please help me how to fix this error.

Thanks in advance for your helps.

Best regards,
Sugiarto.

First check what is your working directory. You should cd /usr/src and then pwd should say /usr/src.

If you downloaded the package using IE, the name of a file may be smstools3-3.1.6.tar.tar. This does not cause problems, but you must type the name as it is in the disk. Type ls -l to see what is the complete name. You can also type tar -zxf smstools3- and then press tab to complete the command.

sugiarto wrote

tar <child> : smstools*.tar: Cannot open: no such file or directory

You probably tried with tar -zxf smstools*.tar which does not work, check this too.

Hi Keke,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for my late reply, I was writing my own smstool in win env. It is finish now, and it runs ok on Huawei E220.

I follow your suggestion, the result are like this.
1) tar -xzf smstools3->ok
2) cd smstools3 ->ok
3) make->ok
4) make install->error

Since I have my own smstool, I think i will use it and adding some features compare to this smstools3.

I think instruction smstools3 for windows need to be updated so novice like me will have a good tutor.

Anyway thanks again for your helps.

Best regards,
Sugiarto.

sugiarto wrote

4) make install->error

In that step there should be no errors. If you want to show what the error exactly was, I could try to check if it can be resolved.

sugiarto wrote

I think instruction smstools3 for windows need to be updated so novice like me will have a good tutor.

I have now updated instructions little bit, but still some Unix knowledge is useful when running this software under Cygwin.