Gemalto PC Card

The Gemalto PC Card is a PCMCIA smartcard reader that can be used for OpenPGP smartcards. This article aims to provide a setup for using it with GnuPG via CCID.

Kernel Setup
The Card reader obviously needs PCMCIA support, so activate the following options and choose the bridge that is in your computer.

Compile and install the new kernel with those options. After reboot check that when the card is inserted you have the device /dev/ttyS0 or similar for your card reader.

Install ccid and gnupg
I propose to enable globally and set. now install the software:

Adapt the following file to your needs

Try if the card is recognized

If everything works fine you can add your normal user to the uucp group to be able to access /dev/ttyS0:

Now John should be able to access the card as above.

Conclusion
You are now ready to use your card reader. You could for example read the following guides:

http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto.html or

http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_with_subkeys_using_backups