MUSCLE driver for Intertex reader/modem released

1999-02-25 Thread Morten Norman

This is a ct-api driver, but I have only implemented the parts that are
used by PC/SC.

Drop me a note if you want the archive by email.

Best Regards

Morten Norman


>From the README:

This is the 0.0.1 release of Februari 23 1999.  Consider it early alpha...

Tested with PC/SC 0.0.5 on a Debian 2.0 system with an IX36-edas DL+ SC
and a 3K/8K card (ATR: 3b 02 14 58).

* test.c, patched for "wrong" ATR: Activates card, finds right ATR and
  loads the 4K driver as supposed.  Communicates with the card, but gets
  warnings/errors.  I don't know if it's due to the IX driver, or that
  3K/8K differs too much from the 4K.

* test_insertion: works.


NOT IMPLEMENTED:

* "COM port sharing", that supports use of the reader and the modem at
  the same time.  The modem/reader has full support for this, but needs
  a driver on the computer side. (Only available for Windows so far.)

  This should be rather easy in a unix system.  Just a "dummy" device
  that makes a /dev/smartcard and a /dev/modem from /dev/ttyS1.  The
  only problem is that I need to learn how to do this first...

  I know exactly how to handle the modem/reader data stream, but I'm
  not a device driver guru :-(.  Any pointers to good information, and
  examples are appreciated.  Or if you want things to happen *really*
  fast: give me a working code skeleton that gives me the data streams,
  one byte at a time. :-)

* IRQ-like card status (insert/pull-out) notification.  This will come
  with the "COM port sharing".

* Flashy use of the display and optional keypad.

* 115k and 230k serial speed.  The original serial driver did only support
  19200, and I prefered to stick with that.  This will be a bottleneck for
  some cards, that negotiates a higher speed with the reader.
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Re: MUSCLE pcsc version 0.0.9 feedback

1999-02-25 Thread David Corcoran

Hello,

Thanks for the update on the README.  I'm pretty busy getting autoconf and
libtool running for PC/SC to make install easy.   Mico is an
implementation of the CORBA specification.  Feasibly, I should be able to
plug in any CORBA implementation into my code and run the IDL's and it
should work : ) since it is a so called standard.  PCMCIA drivers can be
implemented in any way.  The reader drivers are not CORBA objects.  The
Resource Manager is and it dynamically loads IFD drivers written in C
depending on the calling reader.  Good news, the SCM SwapSmart PCMCIA
reader should be supported within the next couple of weeks, including
support for the BioMouse Plus smartcard reader and the Todos Argos Mini
for PC/SC.  Right now I'm working with autoconf/etc and with CORBA oneway
functions to prevent an application from deadlocking the server on Card
Insertion/Removal notifications.  I suspect a new release by the end of
next week.  I'll keep you up to date.

Thanks
Dave

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