Re: Dell Smartcard Drivers

On 08/05/06, Loránd Jakab <ljakab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the hint, I checked the O2Micro website, but they had no
> driver download page. However, the M.U.S.C.L.E. project
> (www.linuxnet.com) does have an open source driver, which I could
> compile and load successfully as a kernel module, with the following
> line showing up in dmesg:
> OZSCRLX version: O2Micro SmartCardBus Reader for kernel 2.6 (upto 2.6.12)
>
> I assume it should work, however, I could not test it, because I have no
> idea how. My initial plan was to buy an OpenPGP card if it works, this
> is why I was asking about it. It would be great if you could point me to
> some generic/testing software for smartcards in Linux, as I have a debit
> card which I could test with.

You can use the command line tool pcsc_scan from pcsc-tools [1]. It
will print the name of the smart card readers found by pcsc-lite and
display the ATR of the inserted card. If you can see the reader name
and get the card ATR your driver is working (bugs aside).

Bye,

[1] http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-tools/index.html

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 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau