Nice document. It references AllowSmartcard and not AllowSmartcards.
I also try to get this to work on a Fedora Core 21 Linux. The document talks a little bit about Linux but not much. What is the trick to get it to work there? The startup scripts references vmware-view-usb but this script or binary didn't get installed. I just got vmware-view-usbd. I enabled usb redirection in /etc/vmware/config and started the arbitrator and usbd service. But I still don't get my smart reader on my VDI.
Any ideas?