On 2/11/06, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Day, > > Background: > > I am busy with a project whereby all employees will be authenticated > with their > own SD cards. Read more about the cards here: > http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1039)-SanDisk_SD_Cards.aspx > > The user will enter a secure room, insert his/hers SD card into a > card reader, type in his/hers username, password and id (and maybe > some other requested info), and if the information corresponds to > the info on the SD card, the employee could then enter the building. >
Interesting! When you get it finished it would be nice if you post a full summary here for the record. > Also the card will be checked for tampering by means of last access date > or something along that line. That is why we cannot use normal magnetic > I.D cards. Can't the last access date be modified though? > I know the SD cards are small, and people can loose them, but I was > told to go with SD cards. I think maybe because SD cards can be > instantly > wtite to, and information can be changed quicker than with a magnetic > card > for instance. > > I would like to know if OpenBSD will be able to recognise and access > the SanDisk ImageMateR 12-in-1 Reader/Writer SDDR-89. > > More info on this piece of hardware can be found here: > http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1145)-SDDR-89-SanDisk_ImageMate_12i > n1_ReaderWriter.aspx I remember reading that that particular device is supported, but I don't remember where. Sorry. Anyway, it's easy enough to test: startup the install media but stop it at the boot> prompt (just bash random keys) and then key in "boot cd0c:/3.8/i386/bsd" and hit enter (I think, you will have to tailor the cd0c part to match up with the device you are booting from, and the path to match up with the kernel you are booting from). This will bring up the full GENERIC kernel with all the drivers loaded. Then just plug in one of the readers and watch the blue text that comes up. if it says something like "not configured" then you're out of luck, but otherwise it will probably list of several devices that it's just installed. Plug in an SD card and it should display something like "sd0: gfdgfdgfdgfdgfdgfdgfdg". Do 'mount /dev/sd0 /mnt' to access the card then. Of course I could be totally wrong. -Kousu
