Thanks Ludovic for the prompt reply. I had already visited your blog, but it wasn't clear to me which info applied to my situation. It was a bit too wealthy to find my way at first :-). But anyway, I got it working.
The reader I am using with my laptop is a build-in O2Micro SmartCardBus Reader. It's a 3 in 1 thinkie (OZ711SP1), connected to a Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge: >> O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711SP1 Memory CardBus Controller (driver: yenta_cardbus) -> >> pcmcia socket >> O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711SP1 Memory CardBus Controller (driver: yenta_cardbus) -> >> pcmcia socket (internal) -> O2Micro SmartCardBus Reader >> O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (driver: sdhci-pci) and >> Integrated MS/xD Controller (driver: ---, haven't tested it yet if it reads >> MS/xD cards) the yenta_cardbus and sdhci-pci drivers worked out of the box(installing Ubuntu), to enable the SmartCardBus reader, I found a driver at http://gna.org/projects/o2scr : o2scr-1.0.8.tar.bz2, this one not really working out of the box ... So at last ... getting to the final stage with the help of your comment "... access rights on /dev/o2scr0 are not correct and pcscd fails to open the device ...". Took me some other day of peaking and poking to get my solution by creating a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-xxxxxxxx.rules and add a udev rule in it: ACTION!="add", GOTO="pcscd_rules_end" KERNEL=="o2scr0", SUBSYSTEM=="ozscrlx", GROUP="pcscd" LABEL="pcscd_rules_end" Had also to remove (comment out) the "exit 0" in /etc/init.d/pcscd as you told me and now everything is working smoothly. I will notify the authors of the driver of the problem. It's source seemed me to be up-to-date as it is dated 06-Jun-2012. As it seems me, they have some options to change their code: - adding some chgrp function when the device is created to set the group to pcscd (#include <sys/stat.h> ...). - adding a rule on the fly to some (generic) udev rules file. - having a prepared udev rules file that is copied to /etc/udev/rules.d when installing. Is it possible to make the installation comment out the "exit 0" line in /etc/init.d/pcscd ? It would be nice if there was some generic rule installed with pcscd (or Ubuntu) that could check if there is a smartcard reader installed, and then add the right permissions ... The hardware I use is rather common on laptops, and I think it's not quite easy for the authors of a driver to get along with all the changes. Especially when Linux is not supported by the manufacturer. Will the future version of pcsc-lite require another adaptation of the driver ? Thanks for coding, et merci de me mettre sur la bonne route, Bart Lambrechts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061947 Title: pcscd (auto)starting and permission troubles To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcsc-lite/+bug/1061947/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
