Ludovic Rousseau
Current status Some Dell laptops have a Broadcom smart card reader. Some readers are for contact cards and some are for contactless cards. Contact readers should work fine with my CCID driver and are listed in the Should work but untested by me list. However, none of the contactless readers are...
Ludovic Rousseau
I have just released version 1.8.2 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. This version resolves an issue that was introduced in version 1.8.1, which was released three days ago. Composite devices (devices with both a CCID interface and also another interface, such as...
Ludovic Rousseau
I just released version 1.8.1 of libccid the Free Software CCID class smart card reader driver. This version fixes an issue with multi-slots readers. Changes: 1.8.1 - 10 June 2026, Ludovic Rousseau Correctly close the slots of a multi-slots reader Fix 3 minor issues "Found by AISLE in...
Ludovic Rousseau
pcsc-lite and my CCID driver are no longer limited to 16 readers. See New version of pcsc-lite: 2.5.0 and New version of libccid: 1.8.0. History Since the first version of pcsc-lite (in 2002 according to git history) the maximum number of readers has been set to 16. This number is defined by the...
Ludovic Rousseau
Which smart card reader is present in a particular laptop model? It can be difficult to find out the exact model of smart card reader included in a laptop before buying it. However, thanks to the Hardware for Linux project, you can submit your own hardware configuration and also consult the...