smart card under linux

[Jens Lechtenboerger]

On 2014-10-21, Philip Jackson wrote:

> It then treats the other protocol, PC/SC, but all it says is "TODO
> - To use PC/SC make sure you disable CCID by passing the
> --disable-ccid option to GnuPG."
>
> From this I assumed that CCID was perhaps either preferred / more
> important / more useful / or more modern so I didn't touch
> anything about PCSC and this means that pcscd is not running on my
> system.

Did you really verify that pcscd is not running?  It can cause your
error messages: https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/?p=89

Best wishes
Jens