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Yogprasad Moneta

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:48:07 PM8/3/24

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OpenSC is supposed to work with any supported smart card (see SupportedHardware for a list) if you have a driver for your card reader or USB token. If you're unsure, you need a PC/SC driver, which 99.9% of vendors provide for at least Windows platform. CT-API drivers are also supported (only if required and a driver is available from reader vendor, CT-API is a deprecated interface) and OpenCT (on Linux/BSD, if the reader or token does not work with pcsc-lite).

Almost all recent USB smart card readers follow the CCID specification. But not all. For USB dongles, a driver is needed for the USB connection if the token uses a proprietary protocol.For a list of CCID smart card readers supported by libccid see If you are planning to buy a smart card reader, be sure to check for CCID compliance (and extended APDU support if you want to be somewhat future-proof).

As it is a pretty much bog standard Fujitsu Siemens USB Smartcard Reader, it should be work with the drivers for the "Fujitsu Siemens SmartCard USB 2A" and "Fujitsu Siemens SmartCard Keyboard USB 2A". Both of which are the exact same thing, except the "Keyboard" variant is in permanently attached to a USB keyboard (as in, in the same case).

I'd like some advice what I should do now? The only thing I can do, is download the CCID driver source and try to hack it in there, or at least that's the only thing I can come up with right now. Is there anything else I can try?

I've downloaded the source package from the manufacturer. It is very old. I've copied the contents to /usr/lib64/pcsc/drivers, but it doesn't work obviously, since it's compiled for the wrong architecture.

When a user inserts a smart card into a smart card reader on a computer that is running Windows 7, Windows 7 tries to download and install the smart card minidrivers for the card by using Plug and Play services. If the driver for the smart card is not available at any of the preconfigured locations such as Windows Update, Windows displays an error message in the notification area that states that the driver software was not found.

All smart cards require additional software to work in Windows unless there is an inbox driver that lets the user use the card without installing additional software. The Windows Smart Card Framework was improved in Windows 7 to enable automatic download for smart card minidrivers from Windows Update or from other similar locations, such as a WSUS server, when the smart card is inserted into the reader. All smart cards that successfully pass the logo requirements, as published by the Windows Logo Program, benefit from this feature.

However, if the software that is required to use a smart card in Windows is not logoed or is of a type that differs from a minidriver, such as a PKCS#11 driver, a custom CSP, middleware, or an ActiveX control, the automatic download option fails because Microsoft certifies only smart card minidrivers. Therefore, if the user inserts a card for which a custom CSP is not already registered, the user receives an error message that states that the driver software is missing for the smart card device even though the user can use the smart card through additional software that was installed on the user's computer from a custom installation.

But is that reader as one single device for both Smart Card and SD reader? Because the RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader matches to what i pointed out, and the drivers are there, clearly it can have multiple slot sizes but now i wonder if:

Install pcsc-tools and start the pcsc_scan(1) utility, then connect the Smart card reader and finally insert a card.If you see output like this, the smart card reader and also the card have been successfully recognized.

When interfacing with a TV-card for live TV and recording (PVR/DVR), you may need to assign the smartcard reader to the video user group allowing decryption. When using a Smargo Smartreader consider the following udev rule:

If using packages from the GnuTLS suite which utilize p11-kit, such as p11tool, the OpenSC driver might not properly load. This can be determined if you run p11tool --list-tokens and you do not see your hardware token in the list.

If the browser is not able to use the smart card data, probably it is not aware of the service which provides access to the device. This happens if you plug in the smart card reader after you open Firefox.To solve this issue, simply restart Firefox.