Looking to use SIM card reader

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:33:39PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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.

/dev/ttyUSB0 is the serial port.  Try minicom or something.  Of course
you would have to know the sim card protocol to talk to it I expect.

Check out pySIM (it talks to sim card readers over serial, so that is
probably what you want).  http://www.ladyada.net/make/simreader/download.html

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