Hi Cristophe,
in fact I found some rudiments of a PCSC installation. I removed them and
for the first five reboots all worked fine. ;)
I hope that this situation remains permanent!!!!!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all !!!
Best regards
Gunnar
>Hello Gunnar,
>
>Gunnar Osterode wrote:
> > The only "bugfix" that I know is disconnecting and
> > reconnecting the power-supply of the reader. But that's not a
> > solution!!!
> >
> > Has anybody an idea what other reasons can provoke this error, or
> > better how to avoid it??
>
>I'm not sure exactly whether this is the cause of your problem
>(as it works all the time for me), but there is a chance...
>
>The fact is that the GemPC410 has two modes for its OS: one is the
>GemCore more, the current version of the OS, and another one is the
>OROS mode, the previous version that used to run on GCR400 readers
>(the version before GCR410). Now, there is a special command to set
>the reader to this mode, and sometimes this command is sent by
>other applications such as those that are using the Gemplus GCRAPI 4
>or even the PC/SC API. So the next time you are using a Java
>application with the pure-java CardTerminal, you have to switch the
>reader back in GemCore mode, and the only way to do this is to reset
>it, i.e., unplug it and plug it again.
>
>Now, if you are *only* using Java and OCF, this is obviously not the
>reason and there are other problems, but then it seems really strange.
>
>Maybe when it appears, you could try to test the Comm API. One good
>test is to run the javax.comm SerialDemo (see below) to get all the
>listed ports in a menu (auto-discovered by the Comm API driver).
>
> $ cd commapi/samples/SerialDemo
> $ java SerialDemo
>
>which will open a GUI with a menu containing all known ports (if this
>menu is empty, Comm is not well installed!). Try to select the one
>you want to use, Open, then Close the port.
>
>You should also check that the opencard.properties file really
>specifies the right Comm port name, e.g., in Linux it could be
>/dev/sttyS0 is you use the Sun or blackdown Java or COM1 if you use
>the IBM Java! In order to be sure of what opencard.properties is
>loaded, you can run the small Java program attached (contributed by
>somebody from IBM, I have just replaced the '\' by '/' on platforms
>which prefer this way :-).
>
>Hope it'll help to find where is the problem.
>
>Cheers,
>Christophe.
>
> = "If there is a better solution... find it." -- Thomas Edison =
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>import java.io.File;
>import java.util.Properties;
>
>public class findOCP {
> public static void main(String[] argv) {
> final String sep = File.separator;
> Properties props = System.getProperties();
> String JavaHome = props.getProperty("java.home");
> String UserHome = props.getProperty("user.home");
> String UserDir = props.getProperty("user.dir");
>
> System.out.println("Looking for OpenCard Properties file in:\n\t"
> + JavaHome + sep + "lib" + sep
> + "opencard.properties\n\t"
> + UserHome + sep + ".opencard.properties\n\t"
> + UserDir + sep + "opencard.properties\n\t"
> + UserDir + sep + ".opencard.properties\n");
> }
>}
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