PIC18xxx to USB device ?

[Felch]

Hi, PIC gurus!

I have to read a smart-card reader (Estonian ID-card, smth. like a passport). I did find out how to command the reader and how to make it send all unprotected data but...via com port. No i would like to move on to USB readers since comm-devices seem to getting obsolate. After some search i found Microchip's code examples but they all communicate to "the opposite direction" - PIC to PC. I would like to have a PIC talking to USB card-reader.
Anybody working with similar project? Could there be any code examples available?

Thnx!
/Felch

Some more reading and i found in the data comms forum that this kind of communication is considered impossible. May-be...but PIC has all needed hardware. So perhaps it's Basic that lacks USB routines? Or is it really impossible?

Sorry for posting to wrong phorum, perhaps admins could move the thread.