User's Manual

18.01.2011
YSOFT SAFEQ USB CARD READER V2 – ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE V1.1 [EN] 11/22
4 CONFIGURATION
USB Card reader v2 can be configured only with software utility called “usbrdrtool”. The software runs in a
system console. It is not a gui application, it is an application running in text mode.
The usbrdrtool configuration tool is designed for USB readers v2 only!
The usbrdrtool prerequisites:
• Windows 2000 and higher
• Linux kernel 2.4 or higher with glibc 2.3.2 or higher
• Root access on Linux or possibility of sudo
• usbfs support for libusb-0.12 library on Linux
• usbrdrtool.exe (WIN32) or usbrdtool (Linux) exacutable binaries
Note: The program requires "root" privileges under Linux, therefore it must be run as user root or sudo must be
used.
The purpose of the usbrdrtool is:
• Show information about connected USB readers.
• Set basic parameters of each reader such as USB reader class type, reader protocol, debug mode etc.
• Card testing for verifying correct reader functionality and reading distance.
• Display of card type during testing (with readers where applicable)
• Update of USB reader normal firmware.
• Update of USB reader service firmware.
• Download log from USB reader for debugging purposes.
4.1 CONFIGURATION OF THE USB READER BY USBRDRTOOL
Start the usbrdrtool under your operation system. When the program is run without any command line param-
eter the following screen is shown. The main menu should appear with the selection you want to do. See ex-
ample on the Picture 6 – Main menu.
Picture 6 – Main menu
Here can user select the following numbers depends on the intervention administrator wants to do.