Smart Card Reader (RTS5169 and chipsets) stops working in Ubuntu 22.04

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I'm sorry for not mentioning a specific package. In the support call on
launchpad it was suggested to me that it had something to do with the
difference in Linux kernel.
On version 5.10.0 everything is working fine but moving to the 5.15.0
kernel that ships with Ubuntu 22.04, I'm having issues with this chipset.

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 6:00 PM Brian Murray <email address hidden>
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Do someone think that's because snap-packaging? It seems that there are some libraries missing from older distros such as mozilla-opencs etc. Since Firefox is now bundled into a snap, I'm worried if that could be the problem.

I have no idea what it is, but every time I need to log in to a government
website, I have to switch to Windows to make my card reader work.
This is a deal breaker for me. It is only happening in Ubuntu 22.04, no
other major Linux distros.

The packages involved are:
apt install eid-viewer eid-mw
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  *beid-mozilla-extension beid-mozilla-webext libbeidpkcs11-0
libbeidpkcs11-bin libeidviewer0 libnss3-tools*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  *beid-mozilla-extension beid-mozilla-webext eid-mw eid-viewer
libbeidpkcs11-0 libbeidpkcs11-bin libeidviewer0 libnss3-tools*
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1.027 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3.606 kB of additional disk space will be used.

My system is a pretty standard installation (no alterations with regards to
snap or apt), runs nearly daily updates and there's still no fix. I fail to
see how it has anything to do with Firefox as the software (eid-viewer)
runs without Firefox installed and should read a smart ID card.

At the moment I'm stuck with 1 computer, until my work laptop comes back
from repair. Once that's done I'm going back to Ubuntu 20.04 or even Debian
Bullseye until I know a solution has been found. I have tried 3 different
card readers that are "supported on Linux", yet the latest Ubuntu fails on
all of them.
Everything installs fine but I keep getting the message that no card reader
is found when I launch the id viewer.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:05 AM Iagoba Apellaniz <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Do someone think that's because snap-packaging? It seems that there are
> some libraries missing from older distros such as mozilla-opencs etc.
> Since Firefox is now bundled into a snap, I'm worried if that could be
> the problem.
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Sat Sep 10 03:56:07 2022
 Reader 0: Alcor Micro AU9540 00 00
  Event number: 34
  Card state: Card removed,

Sat Sep 10 03:56:10 2022
 Reader 0: Alcor Micro AU9540 00 00
  Event number: 35
  Card state: Card inserted,

Using pcsc_scan I can see my card but chrome, edge, and VMware horizon prompt me infinitely for the pin and never seem to respond.

In the linked answer, a proposal to turn on the pcscd service with

sudo systemctl start pcscd

fixed the issue.

Now the question is why that service is not running automatically?

https://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2022/10/ubuntu-2204-and-pcscd-auto-start-failure.html

It looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcsc-lite/+bug/1971984