Thanks, I see more or less what's going on.

Besides of nobody's answers...how stupid is to have free software for
which no free hardware can be found?

On 6/30/10, Luisa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my spare time, I'm trying to make a smart card reader, for which
> I'm using an 8 bits microcontroller.
>
> I've written a state machine within a timer interrupt which strictly
> implements the iso7816 as I could read of it here:
>
> http://www.cardwerk.com/smartcards/smartcard_standard_ISO7816.aspx
>
> However, I'm not even getting an ATR out of the card.
>
> Although I don't have oscilliscope or logic analizer, I've revised my
> code and my hardware setup as many times as I can remember. Also,
> since I begun with hardware testing, use to check the card I'm using
> for it frequently at a friend's home, where her reader says my card is
> ok.
>
> I'm begining to suspect that I'm either missing something completely
> obvious for the score, or that nowaday's cards don't make use of the
> standard above mentioned (at least not how it's explained on the link
> above).
>
> So I was just wondering if anyone could provide some hints or
> insigths? Also, is there any known open reader with firmware available
> somewhere? (doesn't matter processor, protocol or whatsoever, just
> tryng to catch what I'm doing wrong here)
>
> I've seen some on the net, but all of them offering support for memory
> cards (of the sort of Siemens SLE chips), rather than proper iso7816
> ones, and so the reset sequence is not the same as described in the
> above standard.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luisa
>
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