[Pcsclite-muscle] Smartcard access speed under Linux

Ludovic Rousseau ludovic.rousseau
Fri Apr 24 09:46:51 PDT 2015


2015-04-24 15:20 GMT+02:00 Olaf Mertens <stuff at olaf-mertens.com>:
> Greetings form Germany!

Hello,

> I have problems accessing an Omnikey 6121 Smartcard reader from Linux.
>
> We have a Windows based java application that uses javax.smartcardio to read
> and write files from a Omnikey 6121 Smartcard reader.
>
> This works fine under Windows. It takes about 200 milliseconds to fetch a
> file from the smartcard.
>
> The same java code also works under Linux. But the access speed is much
> slower (10 seconds instead of 200 milliseconds).
>
> I believe, that the speed auto negotiation between pcsc-lite and the Omnikey
> Reader does not work. It seems to end up using a very slow default baud
> rate.
>
> I tried the newest Omnikey drivers, but no success.
>
> I don't think that this is an Omnikey driver problem. I see the same speed
> problem using the smartcard reader in a Dell keyboard.
>
> Are you aware of this speed issue? Are there any workarounds or hidden
> configuration options?

Maybe it is a Java problem?

Without any traces it is hard to tell what is happening.
Follow https://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html#support

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau




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