FINDCHIP(8)

📦 version 0.9.18, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 FINDCHIP(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to findchip — section 8 of the manual, i.e. the sysadmin girlies' section 🫶 this one's all about checking your FIR chipset. short page, but we're gonna make it cute.

🌸 NAME 🌸

findchip — checks the FIR chipset. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it iconically ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

findchip [ -d dongle ] [ -v ] [ -l ] [ <chip1 .. chipN> ] [ -h ]

look at her. so simple. so powerful. 💅

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -d — enables debug output 🔍 so you can see what she's actually doing in there, no cap
  • -v — be verbose 🗣️ she'll tell you more about what's going on
  • -l — lists supported chipsets 📋 the full roster, the lineup, the squad
  • -h — prints help message 🙋‍♀️ when you're lost, she's got you

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so, the tea: findchip checks the FIR chipset. that's literally the whole description, bestie, the manpage said it twice and honestly? she's confident 💅

⚠️ important!! findchip must be run as root or installed setuid root, as it requires root privileges. like, it's giving main character energy but with a sudo badge 👑🔐

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

N.N.

(yeah bestie, the original literally just says N.N. — we're not making stuff up in here, facts stay facts 🙈)

🌈 DIAGNOSTICS 🌈

N.N.

💀 BUGS 💀

N.N.

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

also, for the lore girlies, here are the links:

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

This manual page is written by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org>. It is based on the READMEs from irda-utils by the Linux/IrDA Project and the Linux/IrDA-Tutorial. 🫶 thank you for your service, king.

Copyright (c) 2001 Werner Heuser

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. 📜✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 this one dropped on 03 July 2006 and it lives in section 8 of the manual — findchip(8), forever iconic, forever checking that FIR chipset. mwah 💋💅🎀

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