pn53x-diagnose(1)
π pn53x-diagnose β the libnfc glow-up check for your PN53x bestie
okay so bestie, listen. this little icon lives in the libnfc's examples family, and it's literally here to give your NFC chip a full vibe check. no cap. π©Ίβ¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
pn53x-diagnose β the PN53x diagnose tool. that's it, that's the whole name, she's lowkey humble about it π
π SYNOPSIS π
pn53x-diagnose
no flags, no args, no drama. you just run her and she goes π¦
β¨ DESCRIPTION β¨
so pn53x-diagnose is a utility that diagnoses PN531, PN532 and PN533 chips. three chips, one queen, we love a versatile moment π
and what does she actually do? she runs communication tests, RAM tests and ROM tests. like, full main character energy β she's checking the chat, she's checking the memory, she's checking the memory again but the read-only kind. periodt. π₯
π BUGS π
not me having to say this but β if you find any bugs, pls pls pls report them on the libnfc issue tracker at:
https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/issues
the maintainers wanna know, fr fr. don't just suffer in silence, that's not the vibe π«Ά
π LICENCE π
so the legal tea is:
- libnfc is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.
- libnfc-utils and libnfc-examples are covered by the BSD 2-Clause license.
lawyers said we gotta, so we did π
π AUTHORS π
- Romuald Conty
<romuald@libnfc.org>β the icon, the legend, the moment β - this manual page was written by Romuald Conty
<romuald@libnfc.org>too. it is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later). giving writer AND licenser, we stan a multi-hyphenate π
okay that's the whole page bestie, go run it and let your PN53x chip tell you how it's feeling π
<cute sign-off>
this has been libnfc energy, dated June 15, 2010 β old money, still iconic, still diagnosing chips like it's nothing. bye bestie, ily, run your tests π
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</cute sign-off>
π¦ where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: libnfc-doc 1.8.0-r2 Β· LGPL-3.0-or-later
- arch rolling: libnfc 1.8.0-4 Β· LGPL-3.0-or-later
- debian bookworm: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-2 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- debian trixie: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-3.1+b1 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- fedora 43: libnfc-examples 1.8.0-12.fc43 Β· LGPL-3.0-or-later
- fedora 44: libnfc-examples 1.8.0-13.fc44 Β· LGPL-3.0-or-later
- nixos 26.05: libnfc 1.8.0
- nixpkgs unstable: libnfc 1.8.0
- ubuntu jammy: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-2 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu noble: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-3.1build1 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu questing: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-3.1build1
- ubuntu resolute: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-3.1build2 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: libnfc-pn53x-examples 1.8.0-3.1build2 Β· LGPL-3.0-only
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