Entropy Key, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Joshua Newton]

Has anyone been able to get their Entropy Key working with Ubuntu 12.04 
LTS? I had it working perfectly with a Gentoo Linux i386 machine, and 
now that I've gone and moved to an amd64 Ubuntu Server install, I can't 
get it to work. At all. I can't even run ekey-setkey successfully, and 
reusing the old session key (tarred up the /etc/ekeyd dir and moved it 
wholesale) is not working, either.

I've done all the simple things I could think of to reuse the original 
config or create a new one. The only thing that actually works is moving 
the EK back to the Gentoo Linux machine, which I'm very anxious to get 
rid of.

I see the cdc_acm module doesn't accept any parameters I can fiddle 
with, and there's nothing like upgradable firmware for the EK that I can 
find, so I'm hoping someone out there has already hashed this out with a 
newer Linux distro. Or that someone out there has a working email 
address for Simtec folk--I don't, and they don't respond to their 
official addresses...