Belgian eID ( ACR38U ) under Ubuntu

[newbie2]

this did ' the trick' for me , even on hardy :

I removed every packages and was about to give up when I finally found the answer that made things work out of the box at
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/materiel/acr38

Packages to install :

sudo apt-get install libacr38u libacr38ucontrol0 beid-tools pcscd libpcsclite-dev beidgui libbeid2 libbeidlibopensc2

After installing these, I was able to read my card under beid.

Firefox :

In order to access websites working with the eID, you need to load the PKCS#11 module.

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Encryption > Security Devices > Load

Module name : “Belgium Identity Card PKCS#11″
Module filename : “/usr/lib/libbeidpkcs11.so.2″

Restart Firefox when done.

The card reader MUST be plugged before starting Firefox if you intend to access a website requiring access to your eID.

http://www.wains.be/index.php/2007/1...er-ubuntu-710/

[newbie2]

ubuntu gets 'a bit behind' other distro's it seems :
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/red...rf.x86_64.html

can someone make it 'ubuntu compatible' ... coz i use now itrepid 64 bit on my laptop, and when i log on a eID website with firefox , everything is ok , but when i unplug my cardreader(ACR38U) before i close firefox , firefox crashes(hangs)...

[Tiftof]

Just tried this on intrepid. Seem like libxerces27 needer for beidgui isn't available anymore in intrepid nor jaunty. Just downloading and using the old packet from hardy will solve this: http://packages.ubuntu.com/nl/hardy/libxerces27

And for adding pkcs11 module in firefox the module has been updated to /usr/lib/libbeidpkcs11.so.3

[Jurgentje]

Hi,

I also got myself an eID card reader for the Belgian eID.
Apparently, there's a second kind of card reader (type: ACR38-CFC-RZET14) that doesn't work with the ACR38U drivers. It's called ACR38 CCID.

For Debian based systems, there is a i386 (32-bits) .deb file in this package (there's three different packages in the file: one for fedora, one for opensuse and one for debian):

http://www.acs.com.hk/drivers/eng/AC..._Lnx_100_P.zip

The debian file probably works fine under Ubuntu 9.10 i386 - but I'm running 64-bits version of Ubuntu here.

Next, I tried downloading the source file:

http://www.acs.com.hk/drivers/eng/AC..._100_P.tar.bz2

Here you have to do the compiling by hand, and I didn't succeed yet.

The people at ACS Hong Kong reply to support mails very quickly (I contacted them this summer with a previous issue and then also, they did respond within half an hour).
Because I had errors, I contacted them, and the advised to check if these programs were installed:

• libusb-dev (>= 0.1.6a-2.1)
• libpcsclite-dev (>= 1.3.3)
• flex
• autotools-dev
• pkg-config
• g++

So I installed these (default Synaptic)... and ended up with these versions:

• libusb-dev (2:0.1.12-13)
• libpcsclite-dev (1.5.3-ubuntu1)
• flex (2.5.35-7ubuntu1)
• autotools-dev (20090427.1)
• pkg-config (0.22-1build1)
• g++ (4:4.4.1-1ubuntu2)

Now I ran the commands again:

• sudo ./configure
• sudo make
• sudo make install

Now I rebooted the computer... and the card read just fine
Thanks to Mr Lincoln from ACS and their support team for the quick responses on this one!