Using the Infinity USB Phoenix programmer under Linux

[nicio76]

Hi all

A friend of mine has bought the Infinity USB Phoenix programmer. This connects to the PC using a serial cable (RS-232) and works in Phoenix mode. We need some direction on how to use this device in Linux:

* Is there any configuration for the serial ports?
* Is there a way to make sure the programmer is detected correctly?
* Can it be used with NewCS?

Thanks for any hints.

[sat694u]

I tried asking this question before. No one answered me.

[tetra]

My Infinity USB Phoenix is currently running on Fedora Core 4, with newcs acting as a cardserver. To able to get it to run you need niftytool from the manufacturers homepage.

Here's the command how to put it into phoenix mode in Linux

nftytool -p phoenix -- -f 3.58 -p phoenix -e

My reader is hooked upto serial port #1 so it's located at /dev/ttyS0, so that part in newcs.xml looks like this

<readers name="Card Readers">
  <device>
     <name>Reader1</name>
     <type>Phoenix</type>
     <node>/dev/ttyS0</node>
     <mhz>357</mhz>
     <export>yes</mhz>
     <enabled>yes</enabled>
     <blocksa>no</blocksa>
     <blockua>no</blockua>
     <blockga>no</blockga>
     <boxid>0000000000</boxid>
     <carddetect>yes</carddetect>
     <newcamd_port>22222</newcamd_port>
      ...
   </device>
...
</readers>

Ofcourse change the needed parts to suite your setup/taste
Hope this helps,
/t

[cabkate]

my infinity is connected with usb it only needs serial cable 2 go into phoenix mode but uses usb 2 power it up