On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Peter Williams wrote: > (b) It would be interesting to see how Microsoft's CCID- class driver > handles this. Strangely, unlike the PS2 driver for PC/SC signals, the > "standard" CCID driver doesnt actually seem to come with Windows... each > CCID driver version seems to come bundled with the smartcard reader. Any > info on whats going on here? What are the issues?
Microsoft is always late in providing class drivers. (And many companies think it is better to write their own drivers anyway, since that will make it easier to work around bugs in their hardware... So there is not that big a demand for generic class drivers.) But a generic, somewhat limited, CCID driver has been available from "Microsoft update" for some time. See http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/input/smartcard/USB_CCID.mspx for the details. > What issues force a different policy for raw CCID driver distribution, > compared to the case of the raw PS2 driver (for PC/SC)�? Windows does always come with a lot of 3rd party drivers from Microsoft partners, to make their hardware work out of the box. The PS2 PC/SC driver is, AFAIK, such a driver. /Krister _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
