PC/SC-lite (Personal Computer/Smart Card interface) 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. Compiling with "DEBUGATR=1 ./pcsc-lite.SlackBuild" enables ATR parsing debug 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. NOTE: drivers are not included and must be compiled and installed separately. See DRIVERS file in pcsc-lite's doc directory for more information on getting and installing specific drivers. pcsc-lite is compiled with the --enable-usbdropdir=/pcsc/drivers flag -- this directory will be the destination for usb readers' drivers (ccid, cardman, and others). For serial and pcmcia readers only, it is necessary to edit files in /etc/reader.conf.d/ and run "/usr/sbin/update-reader.conf". 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: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcscd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.pcscd start fi