mgnokiidev - Man Page

links /dev/gnokii to a virtual modem

Synopsis

mgnokiidev /dev/pts/?

Description

mgnokiidev is a tool from the gnokii tool suite used to create the link /dev/gnokii that points to a pseudo-tty (/dev/pts/?).

It is called after gnokiid has created a virtual modem that is attached to the pty.  It's operation is transparent under normal usage as gnokiid takes care of calling it when required.

Since mgnokiidev must modifiy files in /dev, it must be either run as root or SUID root.  The latter is the preferred method.  Normally the mgnokiidev binary is chmod 4750 and owned by root.gnokii.

gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite and (eventually) modem/fax driver for Nokia mobile phones, released under the GPL.

gnokii supports most phones from the 3810/8110 and 5110/6110 series, details including bugs specific to each series appear in the files Docs/README-3810 and Docs/README-6110 respectively.  

Diagnostics

Various error messages are printed to STDERR.

Bugs

None reported.

Author

Hugh Blemings <hugh@blemings.org> and Pavel Janik ml. <Pavel.Janik@suse.cz> are the authors of the gnokii tool suite.

This manual page was written by Erik Rossen <rossen@freesurf.ch>.

See also Docs/CREDITS from the gnokii sources.

Copying

This program is distributed under the GNU Public License.

See Also

gnokiid, gnokii

Referenced By

gnokiid(8).

May 27, 2001 Erik Rossen gnokii