>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "R. Argentini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: E-Gate 5 Drivers? >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >Hello everybody. My name is Ranieri Argentini and i am a student a the >Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. >In its effort to set up a common and comprehensive >authentication/authorisation framework the university has been handing out >student passes with smarcards and smardcard readers to students. > >The reader set consists of a 2-tel (www.2-tel.nl) E-Gate 5 smartcard reader >and MS Windows PC/SC drivers. This of course leaves the people running >something else than windows out in the cold, and there are quite a few >Linux/Unix users at a tech uni. > >Some other people and I have taken it upon us to try and see if we can get >it to work in Linux. The problem seems to be though (as you might have >guessed from the Subject line :) that there are no PC/SC Lite drivers >available for the reader in question. Since the university has already been >handing out a lot of them, i suppose there's little hope in getting them to >switch to a supported reader. > >Now for the questions :) > >(1) >Is it possible that the thing will work with some sort of "generic" driver? >We are talking about a serial reader that contains little electronics. The >most notable feature is a very small IC that bears the name "HC132". This >is most likely an oscillator. There are also quite a number of very very >tiny two and three terminal things i presume to be resistors and >transistors though they are definately not the ones we use in electronics >lab. Further there's one inductance and a couple of things that might very >well be power transistors near the 9V DC in. The whole thing is mounted on >a 1x1,5 inch PCB. >Does this sound familiar to anyone? If anyone is in doubt i will gladly >post a picture to the list :) > >(2) >Does anyone have some useful hints about what to say if i have to write to >the manufacturer to ask them to please ontribute a driver or some specs? >What has worked in the past? What hasn't? > >(3) >In case all else fails, do i have any hope to conjure up a driver any other >way? That is, reverse engineering the windows driver, or trying to capture >serial port traffic during authentication or something like that? > >Thank you for your attention, > >Ranieri. > David Corcoran Purdue University 1008 Cherry Lane West Lafayette, IN 47906 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 765 - 532 - 6006 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 ***************************************************************
