SCM SCR-331 USB Smartcard Reader – Firmware Upgrade

Previously, I had trouble getting some of these readers to work under Linux – the ccid software would complain that the reader firmware was “bogus” and needed to be upgraded. To repeat a previous post, there is *NO* visible difference between the right and wrong versions of the readers – both say SCR331 on [...]

Theme Change…

I changed themes, to improve layout and readability.  I tried several, and this is what I have settled on for now, but I am not terribly attached to it.
So, if ya don’t like it, want the old one back, or want to recommend a different theme, lemme know…

Smartcards, DoD CAC and RDP with RDesktop 1.5.x

In continuing to integrate CAC into Linux, I went to the RDesktop SourceForge CVS website, followed the cvs download directions (using “rdesktop” as the modulename), and downloaded the latest version of rdesktop, which is supposed to have smartcard reader support. This piggybacks off of the installation of the CAC reader software in the previous [...]

Using DoD CAC and SmartCard Readers on Linux

I was recently able to get my DoD CAC (Common Acccess Card) working on Linux, following a discovery on AKO (Army Knowledge Online) that others had also done so, and had posted their instructions and results. I did not install from Mandriva packages, but from the tarballs as instructed, for better control over [...]

Mandriva Cooker Update

Well, I ran urpmi yesterday – partly to see what would come down the pipe, and partly out of hope to fix both a nagging problem with being unable to boot new kernels and a new problem induced since the last update that prevented USB devices from working after about a minute.
Of course, I only [...]