Hi,

I send this e-mail to clarify the current situation regarding the GemPC 
drivers.

I wrote the original driver for the GemPC430 (USB) on Linux and MacOS X. 
Ludovic Rousseau did some fine tuning on the Gemplus driver for the 
GemPC410 (serial). These 2 drivers had no code in common.

Both readers use the same GemCore technology and the same high level 
commands. Ludovic and I decided to use my driver as a base to support 
both types of readers (serial and USB) as they would share a lot of 
source code. The result is available at [1].

There is therefore now 2 drivers for the GemPC410: the one available on 
MUSCLE and the integrated one at [1].


Our current version has the following features:
- one archive for the 410 and the 430
- one archive for Linux and MacOS X (430 only)
- USB is hot plug & play
- multiple readers support for USB on Mac OS X (not on Linux yet).
- support for APDU with data of length > 250 (former limitation of the 
USB driver only)

The Mac OS X driver works only on Mac OS X v10.1 or higher.
The Linux driver is also available as debian packages.

The driver has seen lots of modifications/re-organisations and they 
might have generated new bugs, so do not hesitate to send us a bug 
report or suggestions for improvements.


[1] http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/ifd-GemPC/ifd-GemPC.html


Cheers,
Jean-Luc.

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