Hi, Martin! I send your answer to Kobil as they asked me to do that. Perhaps they can help?
I could deliver a pcsc-log with the proprietary libs for the Cherry ST-2052 which can read KVKs. Would that help? Kind regards Claudia Neumann Am Sonntag Mai 30 2010 schrieb Martin Preuss: > Hi, > > On Sonntag 30 Mai 2010, Claudia Neumann wrote: > > Am Sonntag Mai 30 2010 schrieb Andreas Jellinghaus: > > > Am Samstag 29 Mai 2010, um 15:13:12 schrieb Ludovic Rousseau: > > [...] > > > > old german KVK are memory cards. not sure if/how pcsc-lite and ccid > > > support that. > > [...] > > That's what I wrote a few days ago (although my mail to the list seems to > have gotten lost). > > I remember SCM having extra libraries on top of PC/SC using special > SCardControls for accessing memory cards (with special functions for each > type of memory card, like i2c cards etc). > > Also, I remember early Kobil readers and drivers which required the > application to select a special DF on the card (even though the card > doesn't really have DFs, but such a command switched the reader into a > special mode which which allowed for reading of KV cards). > > AFAIK that was required for the process of getting those readers certified > for use by German health professionals. In that special mode cards can only > be read but not written. Without this special mode those readers blocked > commands to the card. > > Maybe something like this is still implemented into the firmware of those > readers. OTOH even the connection to such cards fails nowadays while it > worked at least a few years ago. > > I used to access KV cards with a Kobil Kaan Advanced USB from within > libchipcard while it had its own resource manager (today libchipcard just > uses PC/SC). I was able to connect the card by cycling through a list of > protocols until the card was responsive. However, my last test a few weeks > ago was unsuccessful. Since I didn't change the firmware of the reader > something else must have changed... > > So basically the Kobil Kaan Advanced USB *is* in fact able to connect such > cards, it seems to be a matter of the surrounding software (driver and > software). > > [...] > > > I have implemented a lib for card readers that I can directly access > > through a device. Don't understand yet how I could do something like > > that with pcsc-lite. Is there a profund documentation? Or could I use the > > Windows header files und libraries with pcsc-lite? > > [...] > > That wouldn't do you any good, I believe. As soon as the card is connected > you can use e.g. SCardControls from part 10 (e.g. READER_DIRECT, UNIVERSAL > etc) which are designed exactly for the purpose of allowing a CTAPI-like > access to the reader. But that's only *after* you get to connect the > card... > > Or maybe you could just connect the reader in direct mode and then use the > part 10 commands. Maybe the reader allows for KV card connection while in > that mode (since it was introduced by Kobil and others chiefly for exactly > that type of access). However, I guess Kobil will know more about that. > > > Regards > Martin _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
