Smart Card readers

Kent E. kentdgr8 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 04:22:34 UTC 2004


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:22:36 +0100, Douglas Furlong
<douglas.furlong at firebox.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:38 +0800, Kent E. wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:25:15 +0800, Edward <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kent E. wrote:
> > >
> > > > i have a smartcard reader on usb .. how would i know if it is
> > > > supported? or how to access a usb device?? is it still plugh and play
> > > > in linux?
> > >
> > > Check your logs when you plug it in - it will give you an indication of
> > > whether the reader is recognized or not.
> >
> > tail -f /var/logs/messages
> >
> > does this will do?
> Yes, that is what you want, however you need to plug the device in after
> you run the above command and look at the output, it should give you
> some information on the device that was just plugged in if it is
> recognised.
> 
> You can also use dmesg to get some information usually.

yes it is detected at the last portion of it ... running dmesg

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