card reader

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:23 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> On 01/20/2011 09:36 AM, Verde Denim wrote:
>> > All
>> > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit) on a Dell 830 that has a 02Micro card
>> > reader.
>> > I have virtualbox 3.2.12 running an xp (32 bit) guest. In the usb
>> > devices
>> > tray icon I can see this as O2Micro CCID SC Reader [0110],
>> > but the selection is grey (not selectable).
>> > I do have the reader app installed from my office (which does work on a
>> > native environment).
>> > On the host, running pcsc_scan shows the reader correctly, and does
>> > detect
>> > when my card is inserted and removed.
>> > I must be missing something as to why this selection is not available in
>> > the
>> > guest.
>> > Any input is appreciated.
>> >
>> > Jack
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Your best bet is to post on the VirtualBox user discussions list:
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community
>>  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
>>
>> Note: VBox 4.0.2 is out & it's probably time to upgrade:
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>>
> Thanks, NoOp. I've downloaded 4 and the extension pack as a backup plan. If
> I don't get this resolved by tomorrow, that's my next step. I just need to
> make sure my 5 virtuals will survive the upgrade. I did see some activity on
> the varous forums about 3/Ubuntu/card readers and was wondering if I wasn't
> trying to fix something that I had little or no control of...
>
> Jack

Check in System / Administration / Users and Groups if your username
really belongs to the vboxusers group. For some weird reason USB
devices may be unreachable in VB when the user does not belong to this
group.


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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64