Are there any RFID readers supported by OpenBSD?

Regards,
Conor.

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:46:40 +0100

This:

http://www.openpcd.org/

claims to be an open design with GPL'd drivers,

but this

http://www.motorola.com/business/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=1722e90e3ae95110VgnVCM100000840...

should be fairly trivial to make work with OBSD, despite being a Windoze CE box as
it has numerous open interfaces and claims to talk to SAP and IBM stuff ...

The question of being "supported" is misleading as most of these devices will
be designed to operate using standard industrial interfaces.

Dhu

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell <


Thanks Duncan,

The OpenPCD is what I was hoping would work with OBSD, I just don't have
access to the hardware yet to try it. On a FreeBSD host most of these just
appear with ugen0 and thats about as far as it will go. I'll look into the
Motorola but I'm not willing to committ to buying something that isn't going
to work, however the same could be said for the OpenPCD. Although at least I
know that OpenPCD will unfortunately work with something like Debian or
Slackware as a last resort. If I can get the hardware to work with OpenBSD
it'll just be a case then afterwards of getting librfid to work. At the
moment I'm trying to get the Omnikey 5121 to work while I await the OpenPCD
reader. It is not going well as one might imagine.

ATB,
Conor.

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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:14:24 +0100

You need to get the OpenPCD to talk on ucom/uplcom OR use the Moto which
has RS232 and Ethernet interfaces (as well as USB) which can be used in a 
more conventional manner.  


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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:14:24 +0100

I've been thinking about this, and what is needed is an economic model.  
Proprietary supply chains don't have a need to be able to cross-reference
and check their "weight and measures" so they can tolerate a closed 
architecture.  Notably, closed architectures can be "first to market"
but cannot stay that way because they can't be "currently" (in RT) validated
by more than one party, so they amount to private "money".  However any commercial
organization or association with more than one member should be interested
in this because it will allow for multiparty validation of transactions.
Also, quite frankly, I can't see a viable taxation system without such
mechanisms, either.


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