- G N O K I I - (C) Hugh Blemings, hugh@vsb.com.au 1999 Last update 29 July 1999 Version 0.3.0 - Contents - 1.0 Introduction 2.0 General Notes 3.0 Notes for 3810 Series 4.0 Notes for 6110 Series 5.0 Installation 6.0 Known Bugs 7.0 Gnokii and Perl 8.0 How to help 9.0 gnokii by CVS 10.0 Protocol Details 11.0 References 12.0 Handsets/Networks tested 13.0 Credits 14.0 Release Notes - 1.0 Introduction - This is version 0.3.0 of gnokii, a Linux/Unix tool suite and (eventually) modem/fax driver for Nokia mobile phones, released under the GPL. Please see COPYING for more details on license/copying issues as well as the (lack of) warranty. gnokii supports most phones from the 3810/8110 and 5110/6110 series, details including bugs specific to each series appear in the files README-3810 and README-6110 respectively. Note that it is still not possible to make fax or data calls on either series of phones. We're working on it :) As you may be aware, there were indications that Nokia may provide some support for the project. Regrettably, these negotiations have pretty much stalled over the issue of binary versus open source releases. We have a web site at http://gnokii.org which amongst other things gives information on how to join the gnokii mailing list, retrieving bleeding edge releases through CVS and more! If you haven't already done so, please indicate your interest in the gnokii project by adding yourself to the user database at http://gnokii.org/users - 2.0 General notes - gnokii now consists of three main executables and a fourth "helper" application that is run suid root. The first, gnokii is a command line utility primarily for exercising the api functions that have been written. Many people now use it for reading/writing phone book entries, sending and receiving SMS messages etc. etc. Ultimately however it is intended that it will become a utility that communicates with gnokiid to provide a command line interface to the functionality provided by the gnokiid daemon. For now though, gnokii provides the main stable interface to your phone. Secondly, xgnokii is as the name suggests an X-windows based application that provides a graphical interface to your phone. It is still in its early days but gives a good indication of where things are heading! At present xgnokii also works directly with the phone, however in the future it will more likely use the "side" interface of gnokiid. The third part of the suite is gnokiid. gnokiid is under heavy development, it's ultimate aim being to act as a daemon that interfaces with your phone on one side and gnokii or xgnokii on the other. This "side" code is still under discussion, particularly with respect to the most appropriate choice of communication method (IPC, TCP/IP etc.) gnokiid's second and perhaps more important role is to provide a virtual modem interface /dev/gnokii that looks like an ordinary Hayes-AT compatible modem. It will support the more important AT commands for SMS and phone book manipulation as well as (ultimately) data and fax call setup/teardown. This code is still in its infancy but some basic AT commands are now available. The helper application, mgnokiidev is used to create on demand a symbolic link between /dev/gnokii and the pseudo tty used by gnokiid for the virtual modem interface. - 3.0 Notes for 3810 Series - Please see the README-3810 file. - 4.0 Notes for 6110 Series - Please see the README-6110 file. - 5.0 Installation - Review the Makefile and make sure that the MODEL and PORT defines are correct for your setup. These values are used as defaults in the absence of a ~/.gnokiirc file. Note that you will need permissions on whatever serial port you select. Review the notes specific to your model of phone in either README-6110 or README-3810 as appropriate. These files also provide information about what functionality is available for each model. Copy the sample.gnokiirc file to your home directory and name it .gnokiirc Edit the settings in this file to suit your setup. Type make, all should build from there, it's pretty simple code so you shouldn't have any problems. Note that you need pthread libraries, they are standard on most modern Linux distributions. Note that gnokii is not only for Linux - you can use it on FreeBSD and similar systems too. In order to make use of the AT emulator through /dev/gnokii, you must; * Create a group called gnokii (edit /etc/group). * Ensure you are in the gnokii group. * Ensure that the mgnokiidev executable has permissions 4754 * Ensure that mgnokiidev is owned by root and in group gnokii. - 6.0 Known Bugs - Review the bugs section in the README for your series of phone. - 7.0 Gnokii and Perl - There is a perlmodule available for gnokii. It gives access to all the routines that are defined in gsm-common.h from a perl-program. It is intended for application developers who want to use their favorite language in interfacing the phone data with databases, ldap-directories and (in the future) different calendar applications. It is written by Konstantin Agouros (konstantin@agouros.de) and support starts with revision 0.2.6-pre3 of gnokii. The homepage of this module is http://www.agouros.de/gnokii - 8.0 How to help - There are a number of ways you can help out. Code specific to each model is contained within fbus-3810.[ch] and fbus-6110.[ch] Both command handlers will dump information to stderr when they encounter a message they don't understand. If this happens to you, try and work out what is going on. Suggestions on changes to the code are welcome, the preference is that they be aired on the mailing list so that a consensus can be reached when appropriate. This is particularly important if you intend making large changes and/or submitting big patches. - 9.0 gnokii by CVS - The gnokii project now has a CVS server, served by the Czech Linux Users' Group. The server's address is cvs.linux.cz. If you are already familiar with CVS, set the CVSROOT to :pserver:cvs@cvs.linux.cz:/cvs/gnokii and use an empty password for checkout the repository with the name gnokii. If you are not familiar with cvs, do not worry. It's very simple. Just install the cvs package for your distribution and do these steps: 1. set your environmental variable CVSROOT. If you have bash (Bourne Again Shell): export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@cvs.linux.cz:/cvs/gnokii If you have different shell, use different command (e.g. setenv). 2. Log in to the CVS server as anonymous reader by typing cvs login Use an empty password. 3. If you are logged in you are ready to checkout the newest sources: cvs co gnokii If you prefer, there is a WWW interface to the CVS server at http://odysseus.fi.muni.cz/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=gnokii Now you are on your own - you have the current sources on your disk in the directory gnokii. If you are going to make substantial changes and feel that they should be included into gnokii please mention it on the list first to avoid duplicated effort. If you would like to receive email when updates are made to the CVS repository, just send Hugh and email to that effect (hugh@vsb.com.au) and you'll be added to the recipients list. - 10.0 Protocol Details - 3810 Series The protocol used between the phone and the PC has been worked out by a mixture of trial and error, monitoring the data that goes between the 3810 and its Windows 95 software and a few snippets of information found on the 'net relating to older Nokia models. Feedback from people who played with the first release of gnokii was invaluable. 6110 Series The same applies for 6110 Series (but I use Windows NT 4.0 for monitoring). The protocol of 6110 Series is somewhat different from 3810 Series. Perhaps the first draft of the protocol for communication between Nokia mobile phones and PCs was not so general to support the newest features of Nokia's phones. - 11.0 References - The web site for this project is at; http://gnokii.org The mailing list devoted to the gnokii project is You can subscribe by sending an email to with the word subscribe in the body. The serial programming how-to was valuable in cobbling together serial code for both monitoring and the tools themselves. This is the Australian mirror, there will be one nearby to you too :) - 12.0 Handsets/Networks tested - 3810 Series 3110/Sonera (Finland) 3110/Telefonica (Spain) 3810/Telstra (Australia) 3810/Optus [Actually Hutchison] (Australia) 3810/Mobile One (Singapore) 3810/SingTel Mobile (Singapore) 8110/Proximus (Belgium) 8110/D2 Privat (Germany) 8110i/MTN (South Africa) 8110/Beeline Vympelkom (Russia) 8110i/A1 Mobilkom (Austria) 6110 Series 6190/Microcel (Canada) (GSM 1900) 6150/Viag Interkom (Germany) (GSM 1800) 6150/Omnitel (Italy) 6150/Beeline (Vympelkom) (Moscow, Russia) 6150/MTS (Moscow, Russia) 6150/NWGSM (St. Petersburg, Russia) 6150/NetCom GSM (Norway) 6130/IDEA Centertel (Poland) (GSM 1800) 6110/Paegas (Czech Republic) 6110/Panafon (Greece) 6110/Telstra Mobilenet (Australia) 5110/Omnitel (Italy) 5110/Paegas (Czech Republic) 5110/ERA GSM (Poland) 5130/IDEA Centertel (Poland) (GSM 1800) 5190/Microcel (Canada) (GSM 1900) - 13.0 Credits - Please take a moment to read the CREDITS file which endeavours to recognise those who have helped so far! - 14.0 Release Notes - 19990824 Version 0.3.0 6110 functionality has increased again, details of which are in the 6110 specific readme. Few minor tweaks on the 3810 side but we've just about run out of things the 3810 can do (data and fax calls aside of course!) This release is the first to include xgnokii - an X based interface to your phone and gnokiid - the makings of a virtual modem/AT emulator interface. Details of these two apps appear above. 19990519 Version 0.2.5 Little has changed on the 3810 side - mostly adding stub functions to stay current with the 6110 code. A no-brainer bug was found in the SMS send routines which is now corrected - could have caused multiple messages to be sent. 6110 support has moved ahead in leaps and bounds, SMS sending is now in there along with many other new function. 19990328 Version 0.2.4 Largely a synchronisation release to incorporate Pavel's numerous patches for 6110 support and internationalisation (such a long word, i18n is better :-). Added SMS delete function for 3810 series. 19990305 Version 0.2.3 Added gsm-api.c/.h and gsm-common.h as a standard interface and set of datatypes that can be used across multiple models. This API is still a work in progress. Changed references to "handset" to "phone" to ensure a consistent nomenclature. Phonebook is now dumped with words int or sim for memory type rather than a numeric value. 19990219 Version 0.2.2 Fixed bug and added support to display bytes returned when the link is initialised. If you see something other than the values noted in fbus.c, please let me know and include your phone type and software version. Added initial cut of SMS send capability. Caveats are discussed above. Added two different default values for length of phonebook name and numbers. These are selected according to whether internal or SIM memory is specified. Fixed bugs reported in 0.2.1 (errno.h and reversal of message center and sender fields) 19990216 Version 0.2.1 Fixed bug that caused phone book entries containing spaces to be mangled. Added retrieve SMS message function. 19990213 Version 0.2.0 First version that looks more like the finished product - supports command line options etc. 19990126 Version 0.1.0 Initial release of monitoring tool - first rough incarnation of gnokii - what will ultimately be the monitoring and programming tool.