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-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">What is gnokii ?</font><br>\r
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-<p>Generally, what is gnokii (G from GNU, NOKII from Nokia) ?\r
-\r
-<p>It is a name of project. The aim of it is to develop tools and drivers\r
-for Nokia mobile phones. Of course, I think in this moment about really\r
-different tools - for example, modem drivers, console tools, etc.\r
-All created here software is released under the GNU\r
-General Public License. Please see <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a>\r
-for more details on license/copying issues,\r
-the lack of warranty and where to send a postcard if you like gnokii :).\r
-Anyway, our software works on many software (Linux, Free BSD, etc.)\r
-and hardware (Intel, etc.) platforms...\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">What software applications are created in gnokii project ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
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-<ul>\r
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-<li>\r
-The first application, gnokii, is a command line utility that was\r
-originally provided to assist developers and interested users in\r
-working with the low level API functions that were being developed.\r
-\r
-<p>From these rather humble beginnings, it has evolved into a the main\r
-command line tool of the suite. Many people now use it for\r
-reading/writing phone book entries, sending and receiving SMS messages\r
-etc. Ultimately it is intended that it will become a utility that\r
-communicates with gnokiid to provide a command line interface to\r
-the functionality provided by the gnokiid daemon.\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-The second application provided is xgnokii which as the name suggests\r
-is a X-windows based application that provides a graphical interface\r
-to your phone. Amongst other things, xgnokii allows you to read and\r
-write phone book entries, read, write and send SMS messages, monitor\r
-battery and received signal strength.\r
-\r
-<p>At present xgnokii works directly with the phone, however in the\r
-future it will more likely use the "side" interface of gnokiid.\r
-\r
-<p>The main author of it is <a href=mailto:ja@mail.upjs.sk>Jan Derfinak</a>\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-The third part of the suite is gnokiid. gnokiid provides a\r
-virtual modem interface, /dev/gnokii that looks like a regular\r
-Hayes-AT compatible modem with the ETSI defined extensions for\r
-GSM phones. What this means in practical terms is that you can\r
-treat the /dev/gnokii device like an ordinary modem and use it\r
-to make data calls from pppd or a terminal application like\r
-minicom.\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-gnokiid is still under development, it's ultimate aim being to\r
-act as a "master" daemon that interfaces with your phone on one\r
-side and gnokii or xgnokii on the other. This "side" code is still\r
-under discussion, particularly with respect to the most appropriate\r
-choice of communication method (IPC, TCP/IP etc.)\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-The last application provided with the suite is mgnokiidev which is\r
-used by gnokiid to create on demand a symbolic link between\r
-/dev/gnokii and the pseudo tty used by gnokiid for the virtual\r
-modem interface. It's operation is transparent under normal\r
-usage as gnokiid takes care of calling it when required.\r
-</li>\r
-\r
-</ul>\r
-\r
-<p>This project also inspired some people to write other software for Nokia.\r
-For example:\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-<ul>\r
-<li>\r
-There is a perlmodule available for gnokii. It gives access to all\r
-the routines that are defined in gsm-common.h from a perl-program. It\r
-is intended for application developers who want to use their favorite\r
-language in interfacing the phone data with databases, ldap-directories\r
-and (in the future) different calendar applications. It is written by\r
-<a href="mailto:konstantin@agouros.de">Konstantin Agouros</a>\r
-and support starts with revision 0.2.6-pre3 of gnokii.\r
-\r
-<p>The homepage of this module is\r
-<a href="http://www.agouros.de/gnokii">http://www.agouros.de/gnokii</a>\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-<a href="http://anders.fix.no/software/gnokline-1.0.tgz">http://anders.fix.no/software/gnokline-1.0.tgz</a>\r
-and <a href="http://alamin.sourceforge.net">http://alamin.sourceforge.net</a> -\r
-software, which interprets received by connected Nokia phone SMSes and makes some things \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-</ul>\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">Which phones are supported ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>You can also ask, what phones are supported ? All, you want :-) Really !\r
-\r
-<p>At first, we were making in gnokii project modules\r
-for Nokia 3810/8110 and 51x0/61x0 phones. Later users started to\r
-write parts for other Nokia phones. And we hope to extend it to another\r
-models: 7110, etc. Remember: it's even possible to write modules\r
-for other than Nokia phones\r
-too (just imagine: support for the most popular phones in one software !)...\r
-\r
-<p><a href=phones.htm>Here</a> is more detailed table with supported phones info...\r
-\r
-<p>You can also look into\r
-<a href="http://gnokii.org/users">registered gnokii users database</a>\r
-too see used by them phones...\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">What is compatibility with hardware ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>Generally, gnokii can work with all computers, which have serial port\r
-(over cable).\r
-\r
-<p>If you want to use infrared, sometimes are small problems, because some\r
-IrDa connectors are not compatible with some standards...\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">How can I get support for it ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>We our only people and we sometimes make mistakes. But don't worry:\r
-support for gnokii is really great. At first, you can tell your problem\r
-to all gnokii users (in May 2000 on the list there were subscribed about\r
-1000 people).\r
-\r
-<p>The most often it's enough. If not, contact with authors:\r
-\r
-<p>When problem is connected with module for concrete phone, write to people\r
-listed in answer for question <b>Which phones are supported ?</b>.\r
-For other parts: <a href=mailto:ja@mail.upjs.sk>Jan Derfinak</a>\r
-is responsible for xgnokii.\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">How to contact with gnokii users ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>Thanks to the efforts of\r
-<a href="http://www.net.lut.ac.uk/~martin/">Martin Hamilton</a> we have a Majordomo based mailing\r
-list gnokii@net.lut.ac.uk.\r
-\r
-<p>You can subscribe by sending email to\r
-gnokii-request@net.lut.ac.uk with the word <i>subscribe</i> in the body of the text.\r
-\r
-<p><b><font color=red>\r
-Note that the list is not a forum for discussion on how to obtain copies of\r
-Nokia's proprietary software.</font></b>\r
-It is the primary discussion forum for the project.\r
-\r
-<p><a href="">Archive of the list</a>\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">Does Nokia sponsors/supports this work ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>In the early stages of the project there were indications that\r
-Nokia would provide some support for the project. Regrettably, these\r
-negotiations stalled over the issue of binary versus open source\r
-releases and the project has proceeded without official or unofficial\r
-assistance.\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">How can I help with creating it ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>There are some things, you can do you gnokii:\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-<ul>\r
-<li>Tell us that you're interested, or that you would use the resulting\r
-software or that you would be happy to test it out.\r
-\r
-<p>The best method to make it is to adding yourself to the user database\r
-at <a href="http://gnokii.org/users">http://gnokii.org/users</a>.\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-Give your input in discussions about the design and development of the suite\r
-now that we are at that stage. In particular the best model of driver\r
-interface will need to be discussed broadly to get the best result.\r
-We've only had limited driver writing experience so if you've more, let us know!\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-Help examining the protocol and its differences between phone models.\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-Port the software to a new platform. Please tell us before you do so to ensure\r
-that the port will integrate nicely into the source code tree.\r
-<br> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-Help us in writing our software or preparing help into it.\r
-</li>\r
-</ul>\r
-\r
-<p><font color="#1F409F" size=+2 class="dzial">Where to get latest versions ?</font><br>\r
-<hr align="LEFT" size="3" width="300" color="#60c0a0" noshade>\r
-\r
-<p>The source of gnokii aplications is in the CSV server.\r
-\r
-<p>We want to thank to Andrew Tridgell, Samba team for it...\r
-and Czech Linux Users Group for hosting the original\r
-CVS repository at cvs.linux.cz.\r
-\r
-<p>The server's address is pserver.samba.org. If you\r
-are already familiar with CVS, set the CVSROOT to\r
-\r
-<p><i>:pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot</i>\r
-\r
-<p>and use the password <i>cvs</i> for checking out the repository with the name\r
-<i>gnokii</i>.\r
-\r
-<p>If you are not familiar with cvs, don't worry. It's very simple.\r
-First, you need some of older gnokii releases (sources) - see for example\r
-links in the end of this question. Unpack them to some directory. Then:\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-<ul>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-For Unix/Linux\r
-just install the cvs package for your distribution and follow these steps:\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-<ul>\r
-<li>set your environmental variable CVSROOT. If you have bash (Bourne\r
-Again Shell):\r
-\r
-<p><i>export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot</i>\r
-\r
-<p>If you have different shell, use different command (e.g. setenv).\r
-\r
-<p> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>Log in to the CVS server as anonymous reader by typing\r
-\r
-<p><i>cvs login</i>\r
-\r
-<p>Use <i>cvs</i> as your password.\r
-\r
-<p> \r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>If you are logged in you are ready to checkout the latest sources:\r
-\r
-<p><i>cvs co gnokii</i>\r
-<p>\r
-</li>\r
-</ul>\r
-\r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-for win32 and (<a href=http://www.wincvs.org>WinCVS</a>):\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-<ul>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-Go to the Admin/Preferences window\r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-In the "general" tab set CVSROOT to the <i>cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot</i>\r
-and <i>local mounted directory</i> to the <i>"passwd" file on the server</i>\r
-<p>\r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>Go to the Admin/Login window</li>\r
-\r
-<li>Enter <i>cvs</i> as the password<p></li>\r
-\r
-<li>Go to the Admin/Create/Checkout module</li>\r
-\r
-<li>Enter <i>gnokii</i> as module name and directory where have gnokii source\r
-(WinCVS will\r
- create a directory called gnokii under the one you specify)</li>\r
-</ul>\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-</li>\r
-</ul>\r
-\r
-<p>If you prefer, there is a WWW interface to the CVS server at\r
-<a href="http://samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gnokii/">http://samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gnokii/</a>.\r
-\r
-<p>Now you are on your own - you have the current sources on your disk\r
-in the directory gnokii. If you are going to make substantial changes\r
-and feel that they should be included into gnokii please mention it\r
-on the list first to avoid duplicated effort.\r
- \r
-<p>If you would like to receive email when updates are made to the CVS\r
-repository, just send email to\r
-<a href=mailto:hugh.blemings@vsb.com.au>Hugh Blemings</a> email to that effect\r
-and you'll be added to the recipients list.\r
-\r
-<p>Another way to get almost latest (x)gnokii tools is to download it from\r
-pages of authors:\r
-\r
-<p>\r
-<ul>\r
-<li>\r
-<a href="ftp://ftp.upjs.sk/pub/users/ja/xgnokii/">ftp://ftp.upjs.sk/pub/users/ja/xgnokii/</a>\r
-- here are really latest versions of xgnokii (site of\r
-<a href=mailto:ja@mail.upjs.sk>Jan Derfinak</a> - main author of XGNOKII).</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-<a href="ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/pavel_janik/Gnokii/">\r
-ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/people/pavel_janik/Gnokii/</a>\r
-(site of <a href=Pavel.Janik@linux.cz>Pavel Janik</a>).\r
-</li>\r
-\r
-<li>\r
-<a href="http://linuxcare.com.au/download/gnokii/pre/">\r
-http://linuxcare.com.au/download/gnokii/pre/</a> (site of\r
-<a href="mailto:hugh.blemings@vsb.com.au">Hugh Blemings</a>).\r
-</li>\r
-</ul>\r
-\r
-<p>Remember: it's still work in progress. It means, that we very often change it,\r
-add new functions and correct our bugs (sometimes once a day :-))... So,\r
-it's good to check it often...\r
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