August 2008 Archives
2008-08-07
Driver for the gpr400 PCMCIA smart card reader anyone?
For a long time I have this PCMCIA smart card reader sitting on my desk waiting to help me writing a linux 2.6 driver for it. Sadly I never came to it.
What I found is a 2.4 driver and a small patch to port it over to 2.6, some small work from my side to catch up with 2.6.13 pcmcia API changes. That's it. The last time I checked it was recognized, not more. I'm pretty sure it needs some real love to get in shape for mainline, but it could be a nice coding project even if the docs are not available as far as I know. At least some code as reference.
I already send a mail to the linux driver project, but gathered no feedback so far. If any of my readers like to give it a try or know somebody who likes, just drop me a mail and I'll send the device over.