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Military personnel have emailed me informing me that they successfully are using their CAC on their computer.

This page contains some links where I've attempted to get some information for you to try.

NOTE:  I personally have not had the time to attempt to configure mine.  One of these days I'll have the time. :)

Email message received on 13 November regarding Ubuntu 11.10:   I wanted to send you an update about getting CACs to work on the new Ubuntu 11.10 as it is different than directions I sent you for Ubuntu 11.04.  In short, Coolkey will not work, CACKey must be downloaded from DISA sourceforge (CAC login only).  Second, the install would not work until I manually created the directory /usr/lib64 in the terminal

Ubuntu 11.04 users guide

For those of you who want to type forms in Form flow (on your Linux computer), here is a way to do it.  Please know, there still is NO way to digitally sign the form.

A good step by step (with pictures) guide for setting up CAC use on Fedora (13) & Ubuntu (10.4) Linux

Judson's Notes on using CAC with Linux

There's a Firefox plug-in that allows you to digitally sign Gmail messages with a digital certificate from your CAC in the web interface:

 Linux Debian "Etch" using GemPlus

Another Soldier used Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) with Mozilla's Thunderbird for email.  He used Coolkey to get the CAC reader working with Firefox, then loaded Coolkeys pkcs module into Thunderbird.

DBSign on Linux information

TxSystems, Inc CAC Reader driver download page (includes drivers for Linux)

Ubuntu forums for CAC support  & another page

 DoD Certs are available for Linux by visiting the DoD Class 3 PKI page on DISA.mil

Another Ubuntu forums website where you can read about configuration / utilization of your CAC. 

Using Linux with your CAC links on Google