Re: Reliable PCMCIA card reader?

Hi,


Am Montag, den 22.10.2007, 17:39 +0200 schrieb Martin Preuss:
> On Montag, 22. Oktober 2007, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> [...]
> > I’m getting more and more fed up with my CM4000 card reader. Without
> > obvious reason it sometimes just does not work, with chipcardd reporting
> > unknown reader errors. Only wild restarting of chipcardd, ejecting with
> > pccardctl and reloading the cm4000_cs driver can get it to work − if at
> > all.
> [...]
> 
> Well, if I remember it correctly the problem was that the driver always blocks 
> when asked for the presence of a card in case there is no card (it then seems 
> to just wait until a card is available). I didn't investigate it further, but 
> maybe it is interesting to do so...

I had a few glances at the code, but couldn’t find my way around.

> [...]
> > Do you know of a PCMCIA card reader that works reliably with chipcardd?
> [...]
> 
> Unfortunately, this is the only PCMCIA reader I know. I have a GemPC Card, 
> though, but I don't think it worked under Linux...

I guess the CM4040 will have the same problems, considering it’s the
same driver family. I’m surprised that not more people use PCMCIA for
their smartcard reader, it’s so handy when you use a laptop.

Greetings,
Joachim


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