[LUGSB] Problem with /dev/ttyUSB*

[JST]

Someone may be able to help me with this.

I have cell phone (Nokia 6820) and a data cable for it (CA-42).

Supposedly it works but not the best in Linux, the phone is has no
service, and I just need to get all the pictures/data off of it and then
junk/recycle it.  (The power connector was broken off so I finally got
around to soldering a solution to get it to charge up again.)

Now supposedly there is a program called gammu and a gui frontend called
wammu that can access it and get everything I need.  All that  I have to
specify gammu to let it work is the device that my data cable
represents.  When plugged in and turned on, I have no /dev/ttyUSB* or
/dev/ttyACM*, or anything under /dev/usb or /dev/input for it.  I do
have /dev/usbdev2.2_ep00 (and ep02 ep81 ep82).  lsusb shows the device,
and dmesg shows that it sees a connection.  I am certain that these are
the right device nodes for this thing, because the bus/id match up, and
I can see the vendorID with lsusb.  So I have these character device
nodes in /dev/, but none of them work with gammu, even after given full
permissions.  I am wondering why exactly I am missing /dev/ttyUSB*,
which seems like a more common convention for serial data through usb
ports, and the one that gammu checks by default.

Does anyone have any ideas about what this could be?  I was thinking it
could be something missing out of my kernel, but modem over usb, serial
over usb, all that stuff is on or a loaded module.

Oh yeah, so I figured why not and I grabbed the official Nokia .exe and
tried to run it under Wine, to no luck.  So I bit the bullet realizing
that I may indeed have one of those elusive devices that only works in
windows, so I installed the driver on my brother's machine.  Yeah that
system is sort of hosed now.  What a crap driver/setup.

Any suggestions?