Hi,

  I think the first recommendation that you should make to Schlumberger
is that they hire this guy when he graduates! He only ask lucid and
germaine questions....

Dave
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, David Corcoran wrote:

>
> >To: sclinuxlinuxnet.com
> >From: "R. Argentini" <R.Argentinistudent.tudelft.nl>
> >Subject: E-Gate 5 Drivers?
> >Mime-Version: 1.0
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> >
> >Hello everybody. My name is Ranieri Argentini and i am a student a the
> >Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
> >In its effort to set up a common and comprehensive
> >authentication/authorisation framework the university has been handing out
> >student passes with smarcards and smardcard readers to students.
> >
> >The reader set consists of a 2-tel (www.2-tel.nl) E-Gate 5 smartcard reader
> >and MS Windows PC/SC drivers. This of course leaves the people running
> >something else than windows out in the cold, and there are quite a few
> >Linux/Unix users at a tech uni.
> >
> >Some other people and I have taken it upon us to try and see if we can get
> >it to work in Linux. The problem seems to be though (as you might have
> >guessed from the Subject line :) that there are no PC/SC Lite drivers
> >available for the reader in question. Since the university has already been
> >handing out a lot of them, i suppose there's little hope in getting them to
> >switch to a supported reader.
> >
> >Now for the questions :)
> >
> >(1)
> >Is it possible that the thing will work with some sort of "generic" driver?
> >We are talking about a serial reader that contains little electronics. The
> >most notable feature is a very small IC that bears the name "HC132". This
> >is most likely an oscillator. There are also quite a number of very very
> >tiny two and three terminal things i presume to be resistors and
> >transistors though they are definately not the ones we use in electronics
> >lab. Further there's one inductance and a couple of things that might very
> >well be power transistors near the 9V DC in. The whole thing is mounted on
> >a 1x1,5 inch PCB.
> >Does this sound familiar to anyone? If anyone is in doubt i will gladly
> >post a picture to the list :)
> >
> >(2)
> >Does anyone have some useful hints about what to say if i have to write to
> >the manufacturer to ask them to please ontribute a driver or some specs?
> >What has worked in the past? What hasn't?
> >
> >(3)
> >In case all else fails, do i have any hope to conjure up a driver any other
> >way? That is, reverse engineering the windows driver, or trying to capture
> >serial port traffic during authentication or something like that?
> >
> >Thank you for your attention,
> >
> >Ranieri.
> >
>
> David Corcoran Purdue University
> 1008 Cherry Lane
> West Lafayette, IN 47906
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>
>
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