Fedora, the Cardman4040 surprise and the Fellowship meeting

Posted by schiessle on Friday, October 27th, 2006 0

I have tried Fedora Core 6 and was really impressed. After installation Fedora detected my PCMCIA Cardman4040 card reader. On Ubuntu and Debian i had to patch GnuPG to get support for this device. As far as i know this device is officially supported only in GnuPG 1.9.x, so probably the Fedora team has taken care about this driver in GnuPG 1.4.5.

But it still don’t run out of the box, because by default /dev/cmx0 is owned by root, is in the group root and has the permission 0600. I have tried the udev scripts provided by Georg Greve but after booting the system it doesn’t work. I always had to remove and insert the PCMCIA card after booting to get it work (strange!).
Than i have found the rules from Lukas Fittl. After creating a /etc/udev/rules.d/gnupg.rules with just this line everything works:

SUBSYSTEM=="cardman_4040", GROUP="scard", MODE="0660"

I think the scripts at https://www.fsfe.org/en/card/howto/card_reader_howto_udev should be updated. They not even have a rule for the Cardman4040.

Also the Fedora project validates all their software packages to be under a FSF approved license. Fedora was probably always a 100% Free Software Distribution but in the near future maybe it will also become a FSF approved and recommand GNU/Linux Distribution?

PS: Now it’s official, i have booked a hotel from 9. November to 12. November in Bolzano to visit the SFSCon on Friday and the Fellowship Meeting on Saturday. Looking forward to see you.