Re: Acquiring Dental RVG on Linux
Am Sonntag, 27. Dezember 2020, 17:05:16 CET schrieb Sonali Warunjikar:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 03:53:36PM +0100, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > > Will update the thread when some progress is made. Looks like as far as
> > > the basic knowhow is concerned, I may not have too many more questions.
> >
> > Sounds good. Persistence will pay off.
>
> Something remarkable happened. After playing back the initialization
> sequence the usb device talked with till that point _disappears_ (not seen
> in lsusb any more) and a new device with a different vendor:product (ID
> 082b:100a Trophy RVG 5200/6200) makes an appearance. Looks like rest of it
> is to spoken with the new device.
>
> I do not know how common the practice is and what's the reason - probably
> obfuscation, probably something to do with design of the device.
I consider this to be some sort of obfuscation. Sometime they even send a PIN
this way. This was recently discovered in some German Chipcard readers.
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