help with installing a smartcard

[Philip Jackson]

I'm using UbuntuStudio1404.

Working from :

https://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.html

I completed the steps in 2.3.1 using the section "With udev (preferred
installation)".

I took it that the following stuff under the heading "With hotplug (deprecated
in modern systems)" was a deprecated alternative.  Was this the correct assumption ?

In any case, when I ran the test in 3.1, clearly the system cannot see the card
- I get the following :

gpg --card-status
gpg: selecting openpgp failed: ec=6.108
gpg: OpenPGP card not available: general error


Looking into the directory /etc/udev/rules.d/, I found a README with the following -

"The files in this directory are read by udev(7) and used when events
are performed by the kernel.  The udev daemon watches this directory
with inotify so that changes to these files are automatically picked
up, for this reason they must be files and not symlinks to another
location as in the case in Debian."

so I tried replacing the link created during section 2.3.1 of the howto webpage
with a file.  But the result is the same.

Have I misinterpreted the steps in 2.3.1 ?

-Philip


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