opensc-explorerįailed to connect to card: Unresponsive card (correctly inserted?)Īlso make sure to check whether you inserted the card correctly or upside down before you let your enthusiasm drop. Or use something more visual like cardpeek in order to pull contents and capabilities from your card.Īnd sometimes you fail to read a card although it looks like a smart card, has a pinout like a smart card, but in fact is not a smart card. Using reader with a card: Alcor Micro AU9540 00 00Īs soon as there is a valid prompt we may try to interact with the card. If you have a working reader plug in a card an run the explorer again. Note, that I tried with an old Schlumberger reader which was actually just a USB cable being soldered to an ID-1 Socket and which obviously is not being detected as reader as it is just open wires being plugged in when no card is mounted.

Then check again with the explorer opensc-explorer usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=9540 usb 2-2: new full-speed USB device number 22 using xhci_hcd Thus, plug in your reader and check whether it is detected by the OS dmesg If you have no card reader available opensc-explorer will complain opensc-explorer According to the card’s ID-1 (ISO 7810) form factor and contact placement it could be a smart card and I would like to understand whether such a billing system is really that advanced.

Only few details are available from the manufacturer’s web site. It is plugged into a box that measures current flow and powers the machines.

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