Frank Cox theatre@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