Re: Cashmouse support of Linux

On 5/8/06, Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ah, sorry.
>
> I had a cashmouse with me, but explained to everyone who asked:
> this is a brick. the manufacturer refuses to give any details about it,
> so there is no way we can write a driver :(
mhhh... that doesn't look so good.

> > http://www.eng.utah.edu/~sdean/doc/PinpadReaders.html that says that
> > the usb version of the Cashmouse works under Windows with opensc.
> >
> > The Cashmouse models for the serial port are very cheap (I know two
> > shops that sell them for about 40 Euros) and so just choosing another
> > model would be a expensive option.
>
> geldkarte.de sells them for 20 euro. and a friend of mine wants
> to get rid of his. not sure - I think he tried it on windows and didn't
> get it to work.
They don't sale them there anymore. It was a promo action. They run a
campaing on heise.de i.e.


> but if someone gets it to work on windows, maybe that is enough to
> write a linux driver? (ok, we would need to sniff the serial port, and
> I have no clue how to do that, but I'm sure someone out there can
> help us with that.)
>
> but of course the problem is also finding time, and right now I have
> several readers where the vendor would support writing a driver, so
> they come first.
Well, I would help if I could help. I don't have the cashmouse yet but
if I could write drivers or something I would do it.
I don't have any knowledge in writing drivers and my C knowledge is
mhh... kind of minimalistic.
Maybe you could tell me how much work is it to find out how the
cashmouse works and whats need to know for it. (Okay, would be only
sense if I could help at this point)


Chris Korff