In case anybody finds this via search, Dell put out a firmware patch (Windows only right now) that upgrades the chip.
https://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2016/08/broadcom-ccid-readers.html http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=JP80V&fileId=3559873652&osCode=W764&productCode=latitude-e5570-laptop&languageCode=en&categoryId=SY Basically, if you can upgrade the firmware and ccid versions, the card reader should work (of course, it takes booting into windows to updgrade the firmware, so....) https://cloudnull.io/2017/07/x1-firmware-without-windows/ may help, YMMV -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579918 Title: Smart Card Reader BCM 5880 with kernel 4.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1579918/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
