card reader

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> I just checked the user properties. My username is in that group, but in
looking at the user privileges, I did notice that 'Use Virtualbox
virtualization solution' was not checked. I'm wondering if this might not
have something to do with the problem, although the fact that the
fingerprint reader is available but not the card reader is  something more
of a mystery. It would be nice to be able to selectively take those devices
out but they don't show in the devices dialog. I'll check with the forums at
virtualbox and, if all else fails, remove version 3 and install version 4
and see where that takes me. Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your help.

Jack

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