SCM SPR532 & Ubuntu 8.04 & GnuPG 1.4.6 versus GnuPG 2.0.7

[Tobias Weisserth]

Hi there GnuPG users,

Recently I bought a SmartCard along with a SCM SPR532 from kernelconcepts.
The SPR532 has a pinpad I want to use instead of entering the pin with the
keyboard. I read in one of the GNU howtos that only GnuPG 2 supports this.

I followed all the tutorials and howto documents I could and I managed to
figure out that I had to tweak the USB driver bundle installation of the SCM
driver to copy the bundle into the right directory for Ubuntu 8.04. After
restarting pcscd I could use GnuPG 1.4.6 with the card.

So, after trying different things I managed to initialize my card and
generate a new key using GnuPG 1.4.6 (current Ubuntu stable package).

However, GnuPG 2.0.7 (Ubuntu 8.04 package) will not read the card like GnuPG
1.4.6. When I do a

gpg2 --card-status

I get:

gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Unknown IPC command

This is the output of gpg (1.4.6) for the same command:

gpg: detected reader `SPR532 USB Smart Card Reader (21250709203507) 00 00'
Application ID ...: D276000124010101000100000FEA0000
Version ..........: 1.1
Manufacturer .....: PPC Card Systems
Serial number ....: 00000FEA
Name of cardholder: Tobias Weisserth
Language prefs ...: en
Sex ..............: male
URL of public key : [not set]
Login data .......: [not set]
Private DO 1 .....: [not set]
Private DO 2 .....: [not set]
Signature PIN ....: not forced
Max. PIN lengths .: 254 254 254
PIN retry counter : 3 3 3
Signature counter : 5
...

The card reader has the latest vendor firmware.

I would also like to know how the whole setup is integrated with graphical
clients in Ubuntu 8.04, for example Evolution, Seahorse and such.

Any help is welcome! Thanks!

Tobias W.
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