[Muscle] some newbie muclecard applet and muscle tools questions

[Tomas Latal]

Hello everybody,

i started to explore the world of smartcards, but im having some 
troubles with MuscleCard Applet. I succesfuly upload other applets on my 
card (gemCombi'Xpresso R4 E72K) using card reader Omnikey CardMan 5321. 
Everything looks ok, so i tried to upload MuscleCard applet using 
GPShell. It seems that applet is on card.

1. question: How do I know the applet is on card correctly uploaded?

I suggest that applet is correctly uploaded. I started muscleTool and it 
shows me MuscleCardApplet token. I tried to format it, but after i have 
finnished seting up pins, sizes etc. it writes this error:

Formating token [*] : Format failed! (0x9C02 Authentication failed)

after that any command in muscleCard shell ends with error

ERR: ListTokens Failed ! (0x9C59 Handle is invalid)

2. question: I read the applet has to be uploaded AND installed. It is 
possible that the applet is not correctly instaled?

And one curiosity: If i did't have applet installed/uploaded on the card 
(i deleted it) the muscleTool still (when there is any smartcard in the 
reader) shows me, there is availible token called MuscleCard Applet !!!!!

3. question: How is this even possible??

I'm trying it with Linux (Ubuntu 8.04)

Thanks for any helpful reaction

Best regards

Tomas Latal
latalt2 at fel.cvut.cz