[CentOS] card reader issue

David G. Miller
Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:02:06 -0000

Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> I have never done anything with a card reader before so I have no idea what
I'm
> doing here.
>
> I have a laptop with a card reader in it and when I put the card in I see
this
> in /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb  5 13:28:58 localhost pcscd: winscard.c:304:SCardConnect() Reader
E-Gate 0 0
>  Not Found
>
> This comes up many times in the log.  I suspect that this means that
I'm
> missing some package that I should have installed, but what is it?
>
I went through something like what you're going through when I first put
CentOS on my now somewhat old HP laptop.  Do an "lspci -v" and find
the
entry for your card reader.  Then check to see if it is supported by the
kernel (look in /boot/config-<kernelVersion>).  If it is, I don't have
an answer for you.  If it isn't, check to see if it's supported by the
current kernel from kernel.org.  If it still isn't, it's not going to
work until someone implements support for that particular card reader.
If it is, you have the option of building and running a custom kernel
using the source from kernel.org.  There are lots of how-tos on how to
make this happen.  That's what I did on my laptop until support for my
card reader got into the RHEL/CentOS kernel.

Cheers,
Dave

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