gnokiid(8)

✨ gnokiid 💖

okay bestie, welcome to gnokiid(8) — part of the gnokii family, and yes we're getting the whole rundown, no skimming allowed 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

gnokiid — the girl whose whole job is creating a virtual modem for those old-school Nokia mobile phones 📱✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gnokiid

gnokiid [--help|--version|--debug]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

gnokiid is a tool from the gnokii tool suite, and its whole thing is making a virtual modem device out of a Nokia portable telephone. iconic behaviour, truly 👑

You usually get to that virtual modem device through a symbolic link called /dev/gnokii — and plot twist, that link gets created automatically by mgnokiidev(8). no manual labour, we love that for us 🫶

real talk though: you do NOT need a virtual modem if you already have a real modem that accepts AT Hayes commands (which, ngl, is most of the modern phones). gnokiid was written for the phones that could do data transfer but just… didn't expose an AT layer. the lineup: Nokia 6110, 6130, 6150, 5110, 5130 💫

Once gnokiid has created that virtual modem, you can access it like literally any other Hayes-compatible modem — programs like the terminal program minicom(1) or the PPP daemon pppd(8) can hop on and make standard data connections to remote computers. slay 🌈

Now for the full range of portable telephone functions — SMS messaging, phone book, operator logos, etc. — those live in the command-line program gnokii(1) or the graphical interface program xgnokii(1x). different girl, different job 💅

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

gnokii supports most phones from the 3810/8110 and 5110/6110 series. the details — including the bugs specific to each series — appear in the files Docs/README-3810 and Docs/README-6110 respectively. yes, the bugs are documented, we're transparent like that 🙈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

So if you call it with no options at all, gnokiid will set up a virtual modem device using the settings in the gnokii(1) config file (if it exists). otherwise, bestie, you've got these:

• --help — prints out a short usage message 💬
• --version — prints out version, copyright, phone, and serial device info 👑
• --debug — uses STDIN/STDOUT for a virtual modem 🐛

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

Various error messages get printed to STDERR. not the vibe, but at least it tells you 😭

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🍓 BUGS 🍓

Hmmm...

...and honestly? that's all it says. she's mysterious, she's unbothered, she said what she said 💅

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Hugh Blemings <hugh at blemings dot org> and Pavel Janik ml. <Pavel.Janik at suse dot cz> are the authors of the gnokii tool suite. absolute legends, no cap 🫶

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

Also see Docs/CREDITS from the gnokii sources — the whole squad is in there 🌟

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🌈 COPYING 🌈

This program is distributed under the GNU Public License Version 2, or (at your option) any later version.. (two dots, we keep it exactly as written, bestie, that's the rule 💖)

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• gnokii
• xgnokii
• mgnokiidev

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this one's from the gnokii manual, written by Erik Rossen, dated May 27, 2001, and it lives in section 8 as gnokiid(8). go forth and modem responsibly 💖✨🦋