Using Gemalto PROX DU smart card reader

General
1

Hi Everyone
I have issues using a Gemalto Prox PU smart card reader with Docker
This Device uses a USB connection so i installed “usbipd-win_5.3.0_x64” USB over IP app on my Windows 11.

To manage USB port i created a privileged container :
docker run --rm -it --privileged --pid=host jonathanberi/devmgr

A ESP32 is attached as ttyACM0 so i can create a new container :
docker run --rm -it --device “/dev/ttyACM0” --name Ubuntu -p 8080:80 -v E:\docker\gemalto:/home/ubuntu/gemalto ubuntu/apache2

BINGO! Communication between container and ESP32 is OK.

After some researches i found my card reader uses the CCID specification so the device is not recognized as ttyACM* or ttyUSB*…

The strange thing is :

Using Windows Powershell i can bind and attach the card reader

If i create a container
~~docker run -d --privileged --pid=host --name Ubuntu -p 8080:80 -v E:\docker\gemalto:/home/ubuntu/gemalto ubuntu/apache2
and install the appropriate tools (libpcsclite-dev, pcscd, pcsc-tools, usbutils), start the pcscd daemon ant start pcsc_scan, the access is denied.

So my question is :
Is something wrong with my configuration or USB/IP does not implement the CCID specification ?

Thanks

2

You are using Windows with Docker desktop? Docker was created as a Linux tool, it usually runs in a VM on Windows. So you would need to share the USB device into the VM and then into the container. But you also mention “USB over IP”, so your setup is not clear to me.

3

USB/IP is supported by Docker Desktop 4.35.0+ for Mac, Linux, and Windows with the Hyper-V backend.

Your best be is to follow the instructions in the docs:

Though, there is no guarantee every device will work: