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Smart cards and RFID cards

carlyncarlyn Posts: 78
edited 2012-07-13 07:02 in General Discussion
My soon to be new laptop has a smart card reader. It uses smart cards that have a chip(i guess that is the definition of a smart card loosly) The laptop card reader is contactless, just hold or swipe near reader. (weird the pic of the laptop reader shows a slot where you insert the card)

The smart cards with the chip sold by parallax dont appear to be the contactless type. They appear to need a reader that connects to the card. So I guess its a simple deduction that the Parallax smart cards are not going to work with the Dell Latitude E6510. However I could be wrong as usual.

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  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2012-07-07 13:46
    Not sure what you mean by Smart Card. Which ones do the Dell read (I couldn't find that on their site) And yes, the Parallax smart card is a different type of device.
  • carlyncarlyn Posts: 78
    edited 2012-07-07 15:05
    I am only curious, I don;t know why you;d want a smart card reader/programer as part of your laptop. However to continue, I was wrong about the dell card Reader. it reads contact and contactless cards,
    Ports:
    Network connector (RJ-45), Optional Modem connector (RJ-11)
    USB 2.0 (4) – 1 USB/eSATA combo
    Microphone jack, Headphone/speaker out
    IEEE 1394, 6-in-1 card reader, 34 mm ExpressCard or Type I/II PCMCIA
    Docking Connector, VGA, DisplayPort
    SmartCard Reader and optional Contactless SmartCard Reader

    The Dell online chap told me you put the smart card in and program it with the laptop. That was as much detail as I could get as their tech's are off on weekends...

  • tingotingo Posts: 87
    edited 2012-07-13 06:43
    Wikipedia has the information you need on Smart Cards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_cards
    Now, if you can get Dell to tell you which standards the reader in that laptop supports, well, that's another story.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2012-07-13 07:02
    If it's like the Dells at work be very careful how you insert the smartcard(we log in using our work passes which are a smartcard /RFID combo used to gain entry to sensitive areas) as it's extremely easy to put it into what you think is the slot but is in fact the gap between the smartcard slot and the DVD drive and many of my colleagues have including myself got the card jammed, luckily I left enough of the card showing to use a pair of long nose pliers to extract the card, others were not so lucky and had to send their laptops to the IT hardware dept to have the DVD drive extracted to recover the card (bit of a pain as the cards double up as vending cards for the canteen so no lunch that day if you have to wait for the card to come back :frown:).
    All in all a bad design fault!
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