OpenPGP card not working

David Robertson djpeterrobertson at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 22:05:33 CEST 2011



On 03/09/11 20:42, Martin Gollowitzer wrote:
> * David Robertson <djpeterrobertson at gmail.com> [110903 11:18, 
>   mID <4E61EAAE.20704 at gmail.com>]:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I've just bought myself a Gemplus/Gemalto GemPC twin USB smartcard
>> reader and a V2.0 OpenPGP card. I'm running Debian Squeeze. I've set up
>> udev rules as described here
>> http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.html .
>> However, when I insert my card and type gpg --card-status I get (gpg
>> 1.4.10)
> 
> My first guess: The Gemalto reader is actually not listed in that udev
> file. Can you send me the output of 
> 
> $ lsusb
> 
> so I can check? There is also a script [1] that does the udev stuff
> automatically. I always try to integrate new readers into the script if
> someone tells me the USB device ID :-)
> Also, you might want to try out the Card howto [2] which is probably the
> most up-to-date one around.
> 
> [1] http://download.fsfe.org/tools/cardreader/udev-howto-automatization.sh
> [2] http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_with_subkeys_using_backups
> 
> Thanks, 
> Martin


It's in the output of lsusb:

 $ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 08e6:3437 Gemplus GemPC Twin SmartCard Reader
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 0518:0002 EzKEY Corp. EZ-9900C Keyboard
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 15d9:0a41 Trust International B.V. MI-2540D
[Optical mouse]
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2870/RT3070
Wireless Adapter
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0644:0200 TEAC Corp. All-In-One Multi-Card Reader
CA200/B/S
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I'll take a look at those links now.
Thanks, David Robertson.

P.S. Sorry for sending that to you directly Martin, accidentally hit
reply rather than reply list.



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