Re: Gemplus ExpressCard Smart Card Reader?

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 18.10.2008, 08:42 +0200 schrieb Martin Preuss:
> On Freitag, 17. Oktober 2008, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> [...]
> > I’m not sure, but if I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard
> > correctly, ExpressCards appear either as USB or PCI-Express cards. Given
> > that USB is probably cheaper, it might be possible that the card will,
> > technically, appear as an USB device, maybe identical to some existing
> > USB Gemplus reader. Are any of those supported?
> [...]
> 
> If the reader is listed at "http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html" then 
> it will be supported (it might need a small change in one of the driver 
> description files of Libchipcard).
> 
> If it isn't listed there and there is no driver from the manufacturer then the 
> reader isn't supported on Linux, hence Libchipcard can't support it in such a 
> case, either.

Thanks for the pointer, I didn’t know that libchipcard supports all
cards supported by pcsclite. (Or is this a generic driver that just
happens to be hosted by pcsclite?)

Anyways, I see the GemPC Express card listed under „Should work but
untested by me“, which is good to know. I’ll write how it worked if I’ll
really buy that model.

Thanks,
Joachim

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