Looking to use SIM card reader

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I just bought a SIM card reader, in hopes of using it to back up phone
settings, numbers, etc.

I hope I can make it work under Linux (it was $4, so I thought it would
be worth a try).  Near as I can tell from dmesg it is being treated like
a serial device:

[172293.344009] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
address 3
[172293.506999] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b,
idProduct=2303
[172293.507003] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=0
[172293.507005] usb 4-1: Product: USB-Serial Controller
[172293.507007] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
[172293.507099] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[172293.510067] pl2303 4-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[172293.522086] usb 4-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

The next question - how do you talk to serial devices?

I was sort of hoping that this device, which looks like a USB card
reader, would allow me to view the SIM card as storage, but no :-(

Anyone have any pointers?  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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