RFID tag read/write on FreeBSD

[Waitman Gobble]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> Hi, Reference:
> > instead of people. After I talked to some people I now understand the
> > protocol is mostly standardized so it might be good to turn this into a
> > port, since it should theoretically work with all the modern RFID
> > chipsets.  And "AFAIK" RFID tag stuff has been limited to MS OS
> computers.
>
> Nice of you offering to expand PD src for RFID :-)
> In case it helps, there was some discussion here
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-usb/2014-February/012813.html
>
> & possible some other thread before / since I recall,
> (I havent used RFID but do have an RFID card reader)
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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I checked the link out, thanks. It seems to be a discussion about an
authentication device used for money transactions. I checked out the Linux
driver sources for that device, there's reference to firmware file in the
code but I don't see the blob. Anyway I'm not sure my thing is compatible
with that particular type of reader device.

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