Why doesn't my ACR38 SmartCard Reader work?

Posted by Andrea Grandi on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Andrea Grandi
Published on 2010-11-10T18:32:01Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 23:58 UTC
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Hello,

I've this SmartCard reader:

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 072f:90cc Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR38 SmartCard Reader

I've installed the following packages: pcscd, libacr38u, pcsc-tools, and a driver available on this website http://www.bit4id.com/italiano/download/download_file/Linux.zip

the pcscd daemon seems running:

andrea@centurion:~$ ps -e | grep pcsc
 2799 ?        00:00:00 pcscd

when I try to test if the smart card is working, I get no reply:

andrea@centurion:~$ pcsc_scan 
PC/SC device scanner
V 1.4.16 (c) 2001-2009, Ludovic Rousseau <[email protected]>
Compiled with PC/SC lite version: 1.5.3
Scanning present readers...
Waiting for the first reader...

how can I fix this?

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