Although subject line was a little "incendiary", Gary, I can fully
understand your frustration! As a complete beginner to smartcards and OCF
trying to take in the volume of data was hard enough, let alone struggling
to get it to work when faced with driver errors on a level you couldn't get
to to debug.
I have tried for about 3 weeks now to get Towitoko extern set up under OCF.
I tried using the driver which comes with their Toolbox, Gen_twk.dll, and
then managed to get hold of pure java drivers from G&D (www.gdm.de) and
tried to set these up. Again very frustrating. At this point someone I was
working with had a Gemplus reader which he lent me, and I quickly forgot
about the Towitoko. The level of support in comparison is huge, the pure
Java drivers can be downloaded off their website and everything works great!
So, my suggestion to you is to change to the Gemplus if you can! To be
fair, the drivers from G&D may have worked if I'd persevered - they are
however for their PCT-200 which is supposed to be fully compatible with the
Towitoko extern, and they won't provide any support with them. Let me know
if you want to give them a try and I'll forward them to you.
In light of the problems we have had, I do suggest that someone contacts
Towitoko (maybe someone from OCF?) and explains the problems some of us have
had.
Hope that helps a little,
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tom McKearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: [OCF] Re: Is OCF Usable?
> Obviously it's usable, otherwise this group wouldn't be here.
>
> Does this ChipDrive have a light on it?
> Does it go on for a split second when you put the card in?
> Do you have any other software from the Towitoko people that works with
this
> device to verify that it works?
> Have you turned on the debug tracing messages to see if the OCF is aware
of
> the card?
> Have you attempted any reasonable amount of debugging before asserting
that
> the OCF doesn't work?
>
> T
>
> P.S. Maybe you should use a less incendiary subject line for your next
> post.
>
> "Gary Boon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 8827j4$pvc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8827j4$pvc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > The reason for the above question is that I have a Towitoko ChipDrive
> extern
> > reader. I've installed the latest associated drivers from Towitoko's web
> > site (version 2.14.04), which is described as being OCF compliant.
> >
> > In attempting to use this reader under OCF, I wanted to use the PCSC
> > interface. Hence I used the pcsc CardTerminal provided in the reference
> > terminals (both of the provided ones attempted). For the CardService I
> > decided to use the PassThru CardService.
> >
> > I wrote a simple app to wait for card entry as detailed in the
programmers
> > reference manual.
> >
> > Unfortunately, when a card is inserted no response is provided by the
OCF
> > application.
> >
> > My question is therefore, OCF is the way things should be moving
forward,
> > but I'm disappointed in that a simple reader provided by one of the
> > consortium companies does not seem to work with the specification. From
> > reading the archives, others seem to have had similar problems with the
> > chipdrive readers. Therefore, is there anyone on the list who has
managed
> to
> > use the chipdrive successfully with OCF and with freely available
> > CardTerminal and CardServices from the generic release of the framework.
> >
> > I have sent an email to Towitoko support, but unfortunately have not yet
> > received a response.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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