Tom,
To answer your questions, yes the reader does have a light on it and I can
simply get the reader to work with any other interface method I choose.
Whether that be straight usage of PCSC, CTAPI etc. I also have two of the
chipdrive readers, both of which exhibit the same non-working behaviour with
OCF.
As far as testing is concerned OCF doesn't recognise that a card has been
inserted even though the light on the reader indicates it has.
I didn't intend for the post to be incendiary, and in hindsight would have
been better to word it "Is OCF usable with Towitoko readers". It is
frustrating when using a reader from a company that is part of the
consortium and it doesn't seem to work. If I was the only one experiencing
these problems I would question what I was doing, but as others seem to have
the same problems I agree with David and think it would be good if someone
from Towitoko could clarify the situation.
In the meantime, David if you would forward the pure Java drivers that would
be much appreciated.
My final point is, the main reason of a standard or framework such as OCF is
to allow the end user to change their, in this case, smartcard readers, and
alllow the client application to still execute. It seems at present OCF has
not reached the age of maturity where this can be said to be true.
Gary
Tom McKearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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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