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# Belgian eID card reader

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Notes: Shared instructions amongst different eID cards (card readers, pcsc), different mostly in middleware and browser plugins. Merge with Estonian ID-card. (Discuss in Talk:Belgian eID card reader#)

Belgian eID card reader allow you to read your identity card.

## Installation

Install the eid-mwAUR package. eid-viewerAUR[broken link: package not found] is useful to verify a functional setup, before trying to read an eid from within a browser. Before installation, import the (continuous build) keys from [[1]. See makepkg#Signature checking.

As a driver for the card reader hardware is required, install the ccid package. In some cases, acsccidAUR is needed instead.

After installing the right driver, start and enable the `pcscd` service.

## Usage

If you have installed eid-viewer, you can open it and (with card reader and your eID plugged in) should be able to see your eID's contents in eid-viewer.

### Firefox

There is no plugin for Chrome, but there is one for Firefox. Add the Firefox plugin to your browser. You should now be able to use your eID reader in Firefox. Try it out using the test page

## Troubleshooting

You may find hints for troubleshooting in the official documentation (Dutch) but note that Arch Linux is not officially supported.

### Card reader stopped working during session

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Reason: "Hello, IT, have you tried turning it off and on again" (Discuss in Talk:Belgian eID card reader#)

`pcscd` may have crashed (check with `systemctl status pcscd`, restart it:

    # systemctl restart pcscd

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