Bug 479512 - Detection problem of the card reader "Smart Card Reader ACR38U-CFC-BLI".
Summary: Detection problem of the card reader "Smart Card Reader ACR38U-CFC-BLI".
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pcsc-lite
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bob Relyea
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-10 10:47 UTC by Dirk Provoost
Modified: 2009-12-18 07:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 07:33:52 UTC
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Description Dirk Provoost 2009-01-10 10:47:19 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; nl; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.5

I can't read the content of a belgian electronic identity card inserted in a "Smart Card Reader ACR38U-CFC-BLI".

I installed the correct drivers & gui through http://www.belgeid.be
and
Fedora >> http://eid.belgium.be/nl/binaries/beid-middleware-3%2E5%2E0-fedora-9-i686-3640_tcm147-22615.tgz

The reading application (beidgui) starts up normally when I enter "beidgui" at the dos prompt.

Then, when I go to "Options" >> "card readers", I get the following error message:

detection of card readers

There are no readers detected.
Check if the reader is connected and verify if pcsc deamon has been started.

I checked if pcsc deamon has been started = ok

Ps: The reader and card works very well under UBUNTU.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Finding the card reader

Comment 1 Adel Gadllah 2009-01-10 12:23:29 UTC
This has nothing to do with hardinfo, dunno why you filled it against it.

Try:
yum install ccid
service pcscd restart

This should get your cardreader working.

Comment 2 Dirk Provoost 2009-01-10 12:54:46 UTC
Nothing has changed.
Same problem as before.

Comment 3 Bob Relyea 2009-01-12 19:41:53 UTC
What version of Fedora?

Also, what are the outputs from.

rpm -q pcscd
rpm -q ccid


bob

Comment 4 Dirk Provoost 2009-01-12 19:56:15 UTC
Version = Fedora 10

In "configuration of started programs" I see a green bullet in front of PCSCD.
When I check with "rpm -q pcscd" (see below) it says "pcscd is not installed"?!?

[ammans@TravelPC ~]$ rpm -q pcscd
package pcscd is not installed
[ammans@TravelPC ~]$ 


[ammans@TravelPC ~]$ rpm -q ccid
ccid-1.3.8-1.fc10.i386
[ammans@TravelPC ~]$

Comment 5 Bob Relyea 2009-01-13 02:05:35 UTC
my bad, that should be rpm -q pcsc-lite, but the rest of your info seems to indicate you probably have the correct one (I belive ccid has a dependency on pcsc-lite).

The next question then, what does lsusb produce?

bob

Comment 6 Bob Relyea 2009-01-13 02:18:56 UTC
Hmm, looking at the package, it looks like they ship their own version of libpcsclite.so called libbeidpcsclite.so.2.7.1.

That's not really kosher since it's trying to connect to a service daemon. The API between the  not guaranteed to be binary compatible between releases. What's most likely tripping you up is the location of the socket. 

One hacky thing to try is to rename ../beid-2.6/libbeidpcsclite.so.2.7.1 to something else and link /usr/lib/libpcsclite.so in it's place.

I don't know how old of a pcsc-lite code they had, or if they made their own changes to the shared library, so I'm not sure how well this would work.

bob

Comment 7 Dirk Provoost 2009-01-13 07:47:58 UTC
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 099a:5321 Zippy Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 13fe:1a00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. 512MB/1GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 152d:2336 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0409:0059 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 072f:9000 Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR38 AC1038-based Smart Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Hub / D-Link DUB-H4 USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0d8c:000e C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter (Planet UP-100, Genius G-Talk)
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
[ammans@TravelPC ~]$

Comment 8 John Griffiths 2009-02-25 22:40:26 UTC
I am having the same problem with an ActivCard, Inc. SmartCard Reader.

The USB bus recognizes the reader.

]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 09c3:0008 ActivCard, Inc. SmartCard Reader
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:0f12 Hewlett-Packard Printing Support
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

But when a card is inserted into the reader nothing happens. I've tried two readers and the card is good because it reads on a Windows XP system using the Actividentity Client.

The generic USB CCID from linuxnet.com says is does not support completely the ActivCard, Inc. SmartCard Reader version 2 which is what I have, but that is only on one command. I have also installed the SCM310 driver. Neither of these results in the card being recognized when inserted into the reader.

Comment 9 Bob Relyea 2009-02-27 02:02:48 UTC
There are 2 things that need to happen in order to recognize a card in the reader.

1) the reader needs to be recognized. - The SCM310 should work with no problem, the ActiveCard reader looks like it should be supported as well through pcsc-lite.

2) the card itself needs to be recognized.

The previous user's problem appears to be his middle-ware, which ships their own version of the pcsc library that talks to pcscd. This middle-ware is needed to recognize his card.

So the question is what card are you using, and what applets are on that card?

Comment 10 John Griffiths 2009-02-27 17:14:41 UTC
CAC

To my knowledge, only security certs.

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