I am thinking of purchasing the new SOYO Dragon, which has a smart card reader terminal directly on the board. Currently we use Amphenol card readers which normally plug into a mini logic board and then into the serial port of a computer, but the main reader itself does seperate from the mini logic board and will connect to the smart card reader on the Dragon directly (I just don't know if it will actaually work). The smart card readers are very basic and aren't used for security intensive tasks.
A couple of questions I would like to get answered by the computer elite, if I might...does this mini logic board do anything other than just convert the signal from the serial port so that it is understood? It has 3 small chips and 5 capacitors on it, plus requires power so I am thinking it might. How is the smart card reader on a motherboard like the Dragon actually addressed? The software we use is generally setup to read and write to a serial port.
Talking to one technician here locally he thought theat the smart card header might actually be addressed as a serial device and the only reason the smart card reader has the mini logic board with it is the fact that it is having to get the signals via an external serial port, where as if it was being used internally, the logic board wouldn't be needed. Does this sound like it is indeed feasable?
A couple of questions I would like to get answered by the computer elite, if I might...does this mini logic board do anything other than just convert the signal from the serial port so that it is understood? It has 3 small chips and 5 capacitors on it, plus requires power so I am thinking it might. How is the smart card reader on a motherboard like the Dragon actually addressed? The software we use is generally setup to read and write to a serial port.
Talking to one technician here locally he thought theat the smart card header might actually be addressed as a serial device and the only reason the smart card reader has the mini logic board with it is the fact that it is having to get the signals via an external serial port, where as if it was being used internally, the logic board wouldn't be needed. Does this sound like it is indeed feasable?
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