Hello, Just thought I might give an update on what I'm doing. Currently, the pcsc stack exists on Mac OS X. I write a reader driver for a USB smartcard reader which works fine. The resource manager accepts hot pluggable devices so if you insert a USB reader in then PC/SC knows of it immediately. Drivers are even easier. The driver is still the same IFD Handler 2.0 style but I will provide a new Makefile that will turn the shared object into a bundle which contains more information than just the library. If the driver does not exist you can just drag and drop the driver from the web site to your PC/SC drop directory and PC/SC Lite will know immediately of the new driver and configure itself. The readername and everything is automatic. The /etc/reader.conf can not exist if you want or it can. Once USB support under Linux is stable (2.2.4 kernels ?) then I will do similarly there. PC/SC Lite will be distributed with the multi Makefile like before but now to install you will type: make linux make osx make solaris .. etc I will probably try to use the bundle approach on Linux eventually also. Ideally a manufacturer can create 1 bundle which contains driver for each of their supported platforms. I should have a Mac OS X developers kit out sometime also. Let me know what you think.... Regards, Dave ************************************************************* David Corcoran Internet Security/Smartcards Home: Purdue University 1008 Cherry Lane Department of Computer Science West Lafayette, IN 47906 Home: (765) 463-0096 Cell: (765) 427-5147 http://www.linuxnet.com ************************************************************* *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************
