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mgnokiidev: links /dev/gnokii to a virtual modem

NAME

mgnokiidev - 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 [at] blemings.org> and Pavel Janik ml. <Pavel.Janik [at] suse.cz> are the authors of the gnokii tool suite.

This manual page was written by Erik Rossen <rossen [at] freesurf.ch>.

See also Docs/CREDITS from the gnokii sources.

COPYING

This program is distributed under the GNU Public License.