On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:14:24 +0100 Conor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:46:40 +0100 > > Conor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Are there any RFID readers supported by OpenBSD? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Conor. > > > > > > > > > > This: > > > > http://www.openpcd.org/ > > > > claims to be an open design with GPL'd drivers, > > > > but this > > > > > > http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=1722e90e3ae95110VgnVCM1000008406b00aRCRD > > > > should be fairly trivial to make work with OBSD, despite being a Windoze CE > > box as > > it has numerous open interfaces and claims to talk to SAP and IBM stuff ... > > > > The question of being "supported" is misleading as most of these devices > > will > > be designed to operate using standard industrial interfaces. > > > > Dhu > > > Thanks Duncan, > > The OpenPCD is what I was hoping would work with OBSD, I just don't have > access to the hardware yet to try it. On a FreeBSD host most of these just > appear with ugen0 and thats about as far as it will go. I'll look into the > Motorola but I'm not willing to committ to buying something that isn't going > to work, however the same could be said for the OpenPCD. Although at least I > know that OpenPCD will unfortunately work with something like Debian or > Slackware as a last resort. If I can get the hardware to work with OpenBSD > it'll just be a case then afterwards of getting librfid to work. At the > moment I'm trying to get the Omnikey 5121 to work while I await the OpenPCD > reader. It is not going well as one might imagine. >
You need to get the OpenPCD to talk on ucom/uplcom OR use the Moto which has RS232 and Ethernet interfaces (as well as USB) which can be used in a more conventional manner. Dhu > ATB, > Conor.
