I purchased a *brand new* SCR335 smart card reader and tried to use it with 
pcsc-lite 1.5.5 and got this error message:

 ccid_usb.c:859:ccid_check_firmware() Firmware (2.04) is bogus! Upgrade the 
reader firmware or get a new reader.

Since I had bought the reader that very day, I felt disinclined to try the 
second option, so I tried to upgrade the
firmware.  After a good deal of grief, I emailed the manufacturor's support 
address.  They gave me 2 pertinent
peices of information which affect this message.  

Firstly they told me that the reader's firmware is in ROM and cannot be 
upgraded.  Regarding this error message in 
particular, they said:

 "This is what seems to be a shot from the hip from pcscd.  It's correct, the 
  older V1 SCR3xxx readers had firmware versions of 5.nn plus.  But, that does 
  not automatically mean, that a new reader (a successor, actually) with a lower
  firmware version has got a bogus firmware version."

In view of this, perhaps this message should be changed.

J'




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