If I had to guess, I'd suspect that there is something missing from your kernel configuration. Do you have all the PCMCIA stuff enabled? You might want to compare your kernel config with Mandriva's to see what might be different.
>From what I saw with Fedora, the appropriate /dev/ttyS* device should be >created when the card reader is inserted into the PCMCIA slot. You should see >this happening if you do a "tail -f /var/log/messages" before you insert the >card reader. The issue I had was some quirk with a ThinkPad X60 where the >ttyS* device only got created if the laptop wasn't in its docking station. >Undocked it worked perfectly, docked it didn't. Recently though, I've seen it >working with a docked ThinkPad X61 running Fedora 8. - David > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sihan Goi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: MUSCLE <muscle@lists.musclecard.com> > Subject: Re: [Muscle] Questions on Omnikey Cardman 4040 and Gemplus GemPC > Card PCMCIA card readers > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:40:47 +0800 > > > Thanks, I actually got it to work on my development platform(Mandriva > 2008.1) using those instructions. > > However, I'm also trying to get it to work on another standalone > environment with Linux kernel 2.6.22.19. Unfortunately the > instructions there won't work because there's no /dev/ttyS0 or > /dev/ttyS1 in this environment. What can I do to "create" these > devices? Sorry for the noob questions. > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:11 AM, David Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The GemPC Card reader is basically a serial reader, so you have > > to add a file in /etc/reader.conf.d/ with configuration details. > > You don't need to install Gemalto's drivers; the standard > > ccid/pcsc-lite packages work fine. The third question here > > describes what you need to do: > > > > https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~decockd/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Installing/SmartCardReader > > > > You can find out from /var/log/messages the DEVICENAME to use, > > and the LIBPATH may be different than what you see there (the > > libccidtwin driver might have a different version, and if you're > > running x86_64 rather than i386, the path should be under > > /usr/lib64 rather than /usr/lib. CHANNELID doesn't matter, it > > just has to be there. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > - David > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Sihan Goi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: MUSCLE <muscle@lists.musclecard.com> > >> Subject: [Muscle] Questions on Omnikey Cardman 4040 and Gemplus > >> GemPC Card PCMCIA card readers > >> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:20:18 +0800 > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm wondering if anyone has had experience getting these 2 card > >> readers to work? According to the CCID page, the GemPC Card is > >> supported, but I wasn't able to get it to work with the generic > >> CCID/pcsc-lite out of the box. Gemplus has their own CCID/pcsc-lite, > >> but they seem like older versions(like the CCID page stated). Also, > >> does that mean I have to overwrite the existing CCID/pcsc-lite > >> installed with Gemplus's own drivers? If so, will Gemplus's own > >> drivers work with other CCID readers? > >> > >> As for the Omnikey Cardman 4040, is this even CCID compliant? It > >> didn't work out of the box either. I've tested with 3 other > >> Expresscard readers and they worked out of the box, but these > >> Expresscard readers are explicitly stated as CCID compliant and also > >> listed in the CCID page. > >> > >> Any help would be appreciated, thanks! > >> > >> -- > >> - Goi Sihan > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Muscle mailing list > >> Muscle@lists.musclecard.com > >> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle > > > >> > > > > > > -- > > Be Yourself @ mail.com! > > Choose From 200+ Email Addresses > > Get a Free Account at www.mail.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Muscle mailing list > > Muscle@lists.musclecard.com > > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle > > > > > > -- > - Goi Sihan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Muscle mailing list > Muscle@lists.musclecard.com > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle > -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list Muscle@lists.musclecard.com http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
