Need help with USB Smartcard reader

Paul paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Tue May 17 19:40:59 UTC 2005


Hi,

> I've got an "ActivCard" (TM) smartcard reader that doesn't work with 
> FC3. It has a closed source driver that only works with a 2.4 kernel.
> 
> The device shows up in /sys as follows, but doesn't seem to have an 
> associated device entry.

To be honest, it should "just work" (TM) unless it's doing something
really dumb. Have you tried using ndiswrapper with the Win32 driver? I
know it's unpleasant, but it may work - failing that, grab FC4T3 and
test with that, a newer kernel usually works wonders!

TTFN

Paul
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