[Pcsclite-muscle] Serial non-usb readers - Help required

Godfrey Chung godfreyhkchung at gmail.com
Sun Nov 19 17:48:10 PST 2017


Hi Hermanth

Starting from Mac OS X 10.10, you need to register your driver as USB device.
https://frankmorgner.github.io/vsmartcard/virtualsmartcard/README.html#configuring-vpcd-on-mac-os-x

Regards

Godfrey

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Hemanth Kumar <hemanth.sahara at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am building an IFD reader in Mac OSx to work over the serial host
> and port..not sure if this has been worked before... I have couple of
> confusions around that
>
> What I did so far:
> Leveraging the vpcd (virtual smart card reader driver).
> Pushed the shared object on to
> /usr/local/libexec/Smartcardservices/drivers/Serial
> Added etc/reader.conf
>
> What I saw
> The reader is not shown on pcsctest.
> Reader shows if I have a ifd bundle and assign usb storage, but thats
> not what I am looking for, I want to be able to have a non-USB serial
> reader to write and read information from a host
>
> Where should the driver (serial driver)be placed (osx Sierra) so that
> the pcscd can pick that up?
> I can't copy the share object to /usr/libexec/Smart cardServices/drivers.
>
> Any serial card readers sample in mac osx?? ANY help would be greatly
> appreciated, I am at lost how to start, please help.
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
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