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PC/SC-lite (Personal Computer/Smart Card interface)
+License: BSD
This is a middleware to access a smart card using SCard API (PC/SC) Its purpose
is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface in a very small form factor for
communicating to smart cards and readers.
-It is compiled with --enable-usbdropdir=/usr/lib/pcsc/drivers
+It is compiled with --enable-usbdropdir=<libdir>/pcsc/drivers
This will be the destination directory for usb readers' drivers (ccid, cardman,
-others).
+and others).
NOTE: drivers are not included and must be compiled and installed separately.
-See /usr/doc/pcsc-lite-1.4.102/DRIVERS for more information on getting and
-installing specific drivers.
+See DRIVERS file in pcsc-lite's doc directory for more information on getting
+and installing specific drivers.
For serial and pcmcia readers only, it is necessary to edit files in
/etc/reader.conf.d/ and run "/usr/sbin/update-reader.conf".
@@ -21,6 +22,11 @@ output messages.
Compiling with "APIDOC=1 ./pcsc-lite.SlackBuild" produces API .pdf
documentation (mainly intended for developers).
+pcsc-lite uses libusb for smart-card reader's detection. If you want to
+avoid usb polling (according to upstream's advice), you can compile with
+"HALD=1 ./pcsc-lite.SlackBuild" in order to use libhal for detecting your
+reader.
+
To start PC/SC-lite daemon, run "/etc/rc.d/rc.pcscd start".
For pcmcia readers, this daemon should be started after rc.pcmcia - this is
most easily accomplished by adding the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: