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Re: ASEDrive IIIe SC Reader

by Ludovic Rousseau :: Rate this Message:

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On Feb 3, 2008 10:30 AM, Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@...> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2008 19:45:16 schrieb Livio:
> > ASEDrive IIIe USB V2 Smart Card Reader. From the website, it seems that a
> > Linux driver is available, but I'd like to be sure that it will be possible
> > to use it with OpenSC: could you confirm this?
> > If it isn't good.. could you suggest me a good product with the same
> > requirements?
>
> can you check with ludovic rousseau.

I already redirected him here :-)

> if he lists it as working for his ccid
> driver for pcsc-lite, then it should work fine. ccid is the most complete
> package of drivers there is.

The reader is not CCID compliant.

> if not, but the vendor has a binary only driver: only buy
> one and test it. myself I don't like binary only drivers and would avoid them
> at all costs, but see for yourself.

The manufacturer provides a driver using a BSD-like licence. The
driver is already packages for Debian [1].

I do not have enough experience with this reader/driver to know if it
is good or not. Maybe someone on the list is already using this reader
and can share his/her experience?

Bye

[1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/libasedrive-usb

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 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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