"T E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do someone know which Smat card is supported by the Sun Ray 1 smartcard 
> reader?
> The information I can found on Sun homepage and other document is that any 
> smartcard that follow the
> "ISO 7816" and have a unique serial # should work if you are using the 
> latest version of the SUn ray server (2.0).

Sun Ray 2.0 and earlier can work with ISO 7816 cards that use the "T=0"
data transfer protocol.  2.0 knows how to extract a unique ID from about
twenty card families.  What kind of card are you using?  Does it support
T=0 transfers?

> While I search on the internet for my problem I find some old document dated 
> back to 1999 that state that the Sun ray only support PayFlex card?

The early Sun Ray releases, before 1.3 I think, could only recognise
four or five card types including MicroPayflex and Payflex. These were
recognised by the firmware.

> But because the thin client should be a thinclient solution (no os on the 
> machine) and the firmware is loaded from the server, the smartcard support 
> issue should be firmware thing not a hardware thing or?

Card recognition was originally handled in the firmware.  That was OK until
customers started wanting to use their existing smartcards, then it became
impractical.  Card recognition is now handled by the server, which instructs
the firmware to conduct certain low-level card transactions and report the
results to the server.  (The firmware still tries to recognise the original
four or five cards but if that doesn't succeed then it's up to the server
to identify the card type and ID.)

> When I insert a smartcard to the smartcard reader of the Sun Ray 1 I don't 
> get any error messages at all. No gren light, no even a "Card Read Error 
> OSD" ... As far as i know I should at least get a "Card Read Error OSD" if 
> the Sun Ray didn't recogonize the card or, but we don't get anything the Sun 
> Ray just setting where and displaying the "please insert your smartcard" 
> icon....
> 
> We have tested with a couple of smartcards, all smartcards is working with 
> our Sun Blade workstations... Even if the card isn't recogonized by Sun we 
> at least get the gren light on the card reader. So we start to suspect that 
> the card reader on the Sun Ray is broken ;-(

The card LED should light even if you insert a T=1 card, so it's possible
that the reader is broken.  It's also possible that you're putting the
card in the wrong way around.  On a Sun Ray 1 the card goes in with the
chip on the left, on a 100 it goes in with the chip down, on a 150 it goes
in with the chip away from you.  There are little icons next to the card
slot that try to indicate the correct orientation but they're hard to
see.

OttoM.
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ottomeister

Disclaimer: These are my opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

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