beid-tool does not find card reader

Since the upgrade to natty, my beid card is no longer recognized.
It worked in maverick.
When I run beid-tool, it says: "Failed to establish context: No readers found".
I've found a bug report about a related issue here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628922, but I'm not convinced it's being pursued.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: beid-tools 3.5.2.dfsg-10ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f7b4297a446dca8608e2e4681ae4f535
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sat Oct 29 13:54:29 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: beid
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (14 days ago)