On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:39 AM, Patrik Ekdahl wrote:

Hi,

I have problems with the generic ifd-ccid driver for a OmniKey Cardman 3121 under Snow Leopard.
Most of the time the ScardOpenReader call will return "Unresponsive card" or "No Smart Card inserted".
I have the same problem with a Gemalto PC Key reader.

I've tried to recompile the driver and the pcsc daemon but no success.
From the --debug logging of pcscd it seems like there are lots of USB related error, both reading and writing.
I finally got the Omnikey reader to work, using their proprietary driver, by removing the corresponding items from the
generic ifd-ccid Info.plist. Now it works like a charm, but it is a bit frustrating that the generic stuff wouldn't work.

Does anyone have any insight on this? If needed I could provide detailed log data from pcscd...

Original setup:
PCSC Framework 1.4.0
ifd-ccid 1.3.8

Also tried (compiled for 64 bits):
pcsc-lite 1.5.5
ifd-ccid 1.3.11 (linked to Apple IOKit usb Framework)

Best regards
/Patrik

A couple quick things.....

• Please submit any development bugs as a Ticket [1]

• Everything must be compiled 64-bit for Snow Leopard (10.6.x)

• ifd-ccid is actually statically linked to libusb and not IOKit

• You can not just build your *own* version of pcsc-lite 1.5.5 (pcscd) for Mac OS X, since there

is a fair amount of Apple addtional code to integrate with securityd. The v1.4.x that is included

in Mac OS X is posted under the Source Branch.

Is it possible you are using Extended APDUs ? Note at the Smart Card Reader Matrix [2] for the CCID Reader Driver that for the 3121, supports "short APDU mode" [3].

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