Re: OpenBSD NFC support
Thanks Stefan, Paul. NFC is at the moment a mostly idle fancy for me, so I'm unfortunately not prepared to commit to developing it yet.
Re: OpenBSD NFC support
Hi Lari, On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Lari Rasku wrote: | I've been thinking about getting a laptop with a Near Field Communication | module, but I'm worried if it'll work on OpenBSD. A search through the | mailing list archives, man pages and packages revealed only the the | qtconnectivity package, whose description holds the following paragraph: | | Qt NFC enables connectivity between NFC enabled devices. | Be warned that Qt NFC on OpenBSD may need some additional | components. | | Which seems to suggest that it's possible, but doesn't mention what those | "additional components" might be. Does anyone have any firm knowledge? I bought an external (USB connected) NFC reader/writer to play around with. I did get the basics to work (could read information from several cards) with libnfc, but the urgency of that particular project dropped so completing porting that dangles somewhere on the lower regions of my list of things to do. In the end, I found a dongle on ebay that attaches as: ugen2 at uhub4 port 2 "SCM Micro SCL3711-NFC" rev 2.00/2.07 addr 3 The seller seems to no longer ship them in single unit volumes, but here's the "bulk" (20-pcs) option though: https://www.ebay.nl/itm/Identiv-SCL3711-USB-NFC-Contactless-reader-Aimail-Taiwan/252493738824?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 Currently, I don't even have it connected :-/ However, if you're interested in working on this, let me know off-list and I can dig up what little notes I still have. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >[<++>-]<+++.>+++[<-->-]<.>+++[<+ +++>-]<.>++[<>-]<+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Re: OpenBSD NFC support
On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Lari Rasku wrote: > I've been thinking about getting a laptop with a Near Field Communication > module, but I'm worried if it'll work on OpenBSD. A search through the > mailing list archives, man pages and packages revealed only the the > qtconnectivity package, whose description holds the following paragraph: > > Qt NFC enables connectivity between NFC enabled devices. > Be warned that Qt NFC on OpenBSD may need some additional > components. > > Which seems to suggest that it's possible, but doesn't mention what those > "additional components" might be. Does anyone have any firm knowledge? > I am quite certain that OpenBSD contains no drivers for any NFC devices. I have an NFC device in a laptop. If it is enabled in the BIOS OpenBSD hangs at boot due to an interrupt storm. I don't know if this happens on other machines, but you may even have to disable the NFC device in the BIOS in order to use OpenBSD at all...
OpenBSD NFC support
I've been thinking about getting a laptop with a Near Field Communication module, but I'm worried if it'll work on OpenBSD. A search through the mailing list archives, man pages and packages revealed only the the qtconnectivity package, whose description holds the following paragraph: Qt NFC enables connectivity between NFC enabled devices. Be warned that Qt NFC on OpenBSD may need some additional components. Which seems to suggest that it's possible, but doesn't mention what those "additional components" might be. Does anyone have any firm knowledge?
