[Muscle] GemPC pinpad reader issue on Mac

[Ludovic Rousseau]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Stef Hoeben <stef.hoeben at zetes.com> wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> FYI: it seems on Mac OS X, the GemPC pinpad reader
> must be inserted when the pcscd starts. So if
> you remove the reader and plug it in again, it's
> no longer visible with SCardListReaders().
>
> It seems to works fine if we remove the ccid-1.3.8
> driver (and restart pcscd so it uses Apple's CCID
> driver).

This reader works fine for me. I would need more debug information to help you.

- connect your pinpad reader
- kill any running pcscd process
- start "pcscd --debug --foreground" and post here the output

> Little Q: how to pcscd decide which CCID to take?
> Is it randomly, or is there some priority mechanism?

It depends on the list of drivers you have installed.
Have you installed the Smart Card Services Update v1.2 [1]?

Bye

[1] http://lists.apple.com/archives/fed-talk/2008/Sep/msg00063.html

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau