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  1. Bug #1579918
  2. Comment #32

Comment 32 for bug 1579918

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Karl Hill (karl-hill) wrote : Re: Smart Card Reader BCM 5880 with kernel 4.2

In case anybody finds this via search, Dell put out a firmware patch (Windows only right now) that upgrades the chip.

https://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2016/08/broadcom-ccid-readers.html

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=JP80V&fileId=3559873652&osCode=W764&productCode=latitude-e5570-laptop&languageCode=en&categoryId=SY

Basically, if you can upgrade the firmware and ccid versions, the card reader should work (of course, it takes booting into windows to updgrade the firmware, so....)

https://cloudnull.io/2017/07/x1-firmware-without-windows/ may help, YMMV