Smart card and updates

The first stations are scheduled to begin installation no earlier than June with all stations completed over the following year. While this gives customers time, Metro is making customers aware of the change to ensure they are able to make the switch to a new card now whether currently using the system or upon their return as pandemic restrictions are lifted, customers return to school and work and businesses reopen with increased capacity throughout the region.

Additional information and instructions on how to transfer your balance to a new or existing SmarTrip card can be found at wmata. FROM has autocomplete. TO has autocomplete. Nearby Bus Lines. It will unzip the contents, this is the folder you will need when you are doing the steps below.

It will then ask where you want to save the file. WinZip- Use the Extract button. It will ask you where you want to save the extracted files to, I recommend your desktop. Click the desktop icon on the left. Push the little yellow folder in the upper right corner of this active window. It will prompt you for a name for the folder type in CAC Driver. Hit OK, then select Extract lower right corner of this window.

You should now see your new folder on your desktop to open up. Keep this for a later step. Click the Device Manager link on the left side of your screen.

Select the triangle next to Smart Card Readers. Browse my computer Select Browse, then desktop or wherever you made the folder. Select the folder if using the firmware update driver below, stop at the driver folder, do not 'dig' down to AND or Intel folders and then OK. Verify your firmware version before going through this process How do I create a bootable CD from an.

ISO file on a Mac? How do I create a bootable USB drive from an. The firmware update "should" fix the following problems:. By default, the service is configured for manual mode. Creators of smart card reader drivers must configure their INFs so that they start the service automatically and winscard. The entry point is defined as part of the SmartCardReader class, and it is not called directly. If a device advertises itself as part of this class, the entry point is automatically invoked to start the service when the device is inserted.

Using this method ensures that the service is enabled when it is needed, but it is also disabled for users who do not use smart cards. It registers itself for Plug and Play PnP notifications related to device removal and additions. Note For smart card implementations, consider sending all communications in Windows operating systems with smart card readers through the Smart Cards for Windows service. This provides an interface to track, select, and communicate with all drivers that declare themselves members of the smart card reader device group.

The Smart Cards for Windows service categorizes each smart card reader slot as a unique reader, and each slot is also managed separately, regardless of the device's physical characteristics.