Since this is a serial device you really won't need a driver to the best of my knowledge. plug it in to a com port adn write a test program to read from it. You can read from /dev/blah. I suspect that you will find actually reading and writing to the card will be trivial. But having said that - I will say that I have never even seen a smart card reader. I am a programer hovever in Linux and I've driven everything from digitzing boards to plotters and graphics terminals and this was all through the serial port. If you can read it then a deamon can probably set up quite easily and I will be willing to help you in that area if it runs out that this is the area that solves your problems. In return I would like to ask that you reciprocate by pointing us in the proper direction with integrating this technology in our systems. good luck. On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:13:14PM -0500, David Corcoran wrote: > > >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 > *************************************************************** *************************************************************** 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 *************************************************************** This message is strictly private and contains confidential information intended only for the use of the person named above. If you have received this e-mail in error and are not the intended recipient please immediately advise [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that the information is private and confidential and you must not divulge it to any one else. De La Rue Plc www.delarue.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 ***************************************************************
