About two motnhs ago I bought a Cyberflex Open 16k 5 pack, and it was my intention to
use the Xcard for Linux in order to develop some cardlets. But I met a number of
problems that I was not thinking to find in a well tested package and a bunch of
mistakes I was not expecting to find in a manua
Hello,
a while ago, someone mentioned the idea for a program to
'charge' the battery in the cable of a ToWiToKo Chipdrive
Micro. Unfortunately, I lost this mail.
Q: Why would this be required?
Q: How is it done?
[Q: Is this mailing list archived somewhere?]
Thank you,
Matthias Gärtner
Concord
Q: Why would this be required?
Q: How is it done?
I left my reader plugged in overnight and it still doesn't work. I would
guess the charger uses some particular rs232 signal for power, and the
program asserts that signal.
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Linux
Hello,
You should be able to charge up the NIMH battery on the Towitoko by
simply opening the port on which the reader resides. This will assert the
RTS signal which I believe is used to charge up the battery. So a simple:
open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR) should work. You may have to change some
va
> I left my reader plugged in overnight and it still doesn't work. I would
> guess the charger uses some particular rs232 signal for power, and the
> program asserts that signal.
When this happens and the reader never returns anything, one obvious reason may
be that you're using a DB25-DB9 con
Hi,
you will have to set RTS AND DTR high. This is not the default value.
I'm sorry that I cannot help in more detail, as I know only a little
about linux programming.
Best regards,
Thomas Kohn
TOWITOKO electronics GmbH
David Corcoran wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> You should be able to charge up th
