On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:46:40AM +0100, Conor wrote: > > Are there any RFID readers supported by OpenBSD? > > Don't most readers communicate with the host PC over some common > protocol, say RS232 (serial), or maybe USB? OpenBSD will allow you to > access those, so if you find or write a program that can communicate > with the reader via RS232/USB/whatever, it should work as well on > OpenBSD as on any other system. > > Joachim > Not all, some only pop as like this ugen0 at uhub1 port 1 "OMNIKEY AG Smart Card Reader USB" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 *This was the only output seen until I plugged it out then I got the generic device detached message. ugen0 detached In theory they should all emulate/act as a serial interface in some form or another. ACG USB readers use an FTDI serial converter although I won't have one of those to test for quite sometime as they are a bit too expensive when compared to OpenPCD. I don't think the Omnikey readers play as nice as the OpenPCD or ACG readers. I'll have a chance to test the OpenPCD reader with OpenBSD 4.3 in about a week or so. Conor.
