[Muscle] read card type information

[chrysn]

thanks a lot!

i've updated the program to reflect that new knowledge (including a 
simple python reader for your file), and it did succeed in identifying 
all my regular cards (caused a little *g* to read that my e-card is 
"BRANDNEW"; it does not look like it any more after spending more than a 
year in my pocket)

i can, by the way, provide you with another id, in case you accept 
records aquired by experiment (just tried the gsm adapter that came with 
my reader):
3F 3D 11 00 80 67 28 50 04 02 20 00 00 83 8E 90 00 matches a gsm sim 
card of the austrian provider A1
> I am redirected to
> https://svn.amsuess.com/tools/hal/pcsc_hal_interface/ and then a
> login/password is required. How can I anonymously fetch your code?
sorry, i had just enabled anonymous access and didn't check if it worked 
from outside my lan. should work now (without https)


for the same program, there is another issue i'd need your help:
is there a way to determine a characteristic of a reader that i can use 
to find a matching device in the file system?
for example, my reader identifies as 'SCM SCR 335 (21120608436358) 00 
00', but i'd need to get a kind of device i can use for matching against 
hal (eg /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0). the 
closest thing i get up to now is the usb.serial, which is a part of the 
readerName i get, but matching against that looks very fuzzy and, 
moreover, would only work for usb readers.
if this can only be done in C instead of python, that would be ok, as 
i'm thinking of migrating that anyway.

regards
chrysn