No NFC device found on Intel Ultrabook

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I've got an Intel developer Ultrabook. It never went into regular sale. It's 
got an NFC reader under the touchpad which worked well under Windows. Now that 
I run Ubuntu 14.04 (beta) and having installed the Debian SID packages of 
libnfc, the reader isn't detected by libnfc:

$ nfc-scan-device -v
nfc-scan-device uses libnfc 1.7.0
No NFC device found.

Nfctool can see the reader:

$ nfctool -l
nfc0:
          Tags: [ ]
          Devices: [ ]
          Protocols: [ Felica MIFARE Jewel ISO-DEP NFC-DEP ]
          Powered: No
          RF Mode: None
          lto: 150
          rw: 15
          miux: 2047

Let me know if I can provide more information.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andreas....@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 12:48

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I have several NFC related messages in my dmesg:

[    2.044071] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[    2.064433] mei_me 0000:00:16.0: NFC MEI VERSION: IVN 0x1 Vendor ID 0x0 Type 
0x0
[    2.294592] microread_mei: Probing NFC microread

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 12:56

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nfctool is from neard, which supports some readers compatible with libnfc 
(pn533) and some not compatible with libnfc so you've first to figure out which 
one you have exactly.

Try
lsmod|grep nfc
I think it should indicate which other driver is loader for nfc.
If it's pn533, you can try:
* stop neard, remove pn533 kernel module and try libnfc
If it's not pn533, there is no hope.

Original comment by yob...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 1:49

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It says:

$ lsmod | grep nfc
nfc                    95012  14 hci,microread

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 2:16

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So it's the Inside Secure Microread NFC controller.
Sorry, not supported by libnfc!
I will now close this ticket.

Original comment by yob...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 3:34

• Changed state: Invalid

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Do you plan to support that reader in future? Is there anything I can do to 
help make it happen?

Original comment by andreas....@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 3:49

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No there is no plan from the devel team.
We're open for incusion in libnfc but it's really up to contributors as:
* we don't have the hardware
* we don't have the spec of the hw
* we don't have the time (already so much on our todo list)

Original comment by yob...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2014 at 4:07