mgnokiidev(8)

✨ mgnokiidev(8) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to mgnokiidev — the lil section 8 admin tool that hooks /dev/gnokii up to a virtual modem 🫶 it's giving "backstage pass for your Nokia", fr fr.

💖 NAME 💖

mgnokiidev — links /dev/gnokii to a virtual modem 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mgnokiidev /dev/pts/?

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So mgnokiidev is a tool from the gnokii tool suite, and its whole job is making the link /dev/gnokii that points at a pseudo-tty (/dev/pts/?). Like, that's it. That's the gig. And it ate. 💅

It gets called after gnokiid has created a virtual modem that's attached to the pty. Under normal usage its operation is completely transparent, because gnokiid takes care of calling it whenever it's required — so you literally never have to think about it, bestie, it just happens 🧚

⚠️ important!! since mgnokiidev must modify files in /dev, it has to be either run as root or be SUID root. The SUID root route is the preferred method, lowkey the superior option. 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. The deets — including bugs specific to each series — appear in the files Docs/README-3810 and Docs/README-6110 respectively. Go read them if you're nosy, iykyk 👑

😭 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. absolute icons, no cap 🫶

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

Erik Rossen · May 27, 2001 · that's the source and the date from the original footer, bestie — gnokii era, section 8, periodt 💖 bye bestie, go link that pty ✨