README for kardinfo, (c) Mirko Sucker, 1999:
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In this package you find the sources for the kardinfo utility. 
kardinfo is suited to manage PCMCIA cards from the KDE desktop, for 
use on laptops and other hardware that provides PC card slots. 
kardinfo is not written from scratch, it is a nearly 1:1 port from 
the XForms-based cardinfo tool provided within the PCMCIA packages 
for Linux. Thus it carries copyrights from David Hinds
<dhinds@hyper.stanford.edu>, who assisted the development.
The requirements to run it depend on your PCMCIA setup, so, in 
general, if you were able to use cardinfo, you should also be able to
run kardinfo. Remember that an effective user ID 0 (the root user) is
needed in most cases to allow users to handle the cards in the slots.
This is not really a security hole, since these users are able to
simple remove the cards from the slots, so they should be able to do
so in a save way.
If you want to use the tool as a user different from root you need to
build unsafe tools, see the Makefile and INSTALL.
You need to install and set up the PCMCIA utilities for Linux BEFORE
using kardinfo, do not try it the other way round, it WILL NOT WORK.
In most cases, the PCMCIA package needs to be configured and compiled
on the system it is supposed to run on. And remember to enable the 
"Removable IDE devices support" in your Linux kernel, since this 
provides the hardware support for PCMCIA cards. 
See the  INSTALL  file for compilation and installation instructions,
see ChangeLog for new features and fixed problems, and finally have a
look at NEWS for information for the end user.
Greetings,
--Mirko Sucker.
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