Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:50:13 +0100 (CET) | From | "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <> | Subject | Re: writing device drivers for commercial hardware |
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 toxischerabflussreiniger@gmx.net wrote:
> As I'm new to linux kernel development I wonder how to write a > device driver, say for a card reader, if you don't have some > documentation about it. > How do you manage that? Searching for it in the web? I really don't > know ... there's a small book with my card reader but you won't find > a single line about technical stuff in it. > It's a (pretty simple and cheap) card reader connected to serial port.
Hi,
did something similar before christmas. Had a small win installation in a vmware, slsnif running on the linux host and connected vmware on a ttyp slsnif gave me. easy.
BTW what card reader is it ? There are already enough _user space_ implementations for serial smartcard readers. This is where this normally belongs to. Check http://www.linuxnet.com/ p.ex.
-- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/
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