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Merge branch '201311-doc-updates' into bfgminer-3.10.x

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	README.ASIC
Luke Dashjr 11 years ago
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README.ASIC

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ SUPPORTED DEVICES
 Currently supported ASIC devices include Avalon, Bitfountain's Block Erupter
 series (both USB and blades), a large variety of Bitfury-based miners,
 Butterfly Labs' SC range of devices, HashBuster boards, Klondike modules, and
-KnCminer's Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.
+KnCMiner's Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn.
 
 
 AVALON
@@ -144,10 +144,12 @@ KLONDIKE
 KNCMINER
 --------
 
-The KnC miner uses a BeagleBoneBlack(BBB) as the host, this is pluged into a
-cape that holds the FPGA and connections for 4-6 ASICS depending on the cape
-version. The BBB runs the Angstrom linux distribution, the following is a step
-by step install for BFGMiner on this distro;
+KnCMiner rigs use a BeagleBone Black (BBB) as the host; this is pluged into a
+"cape" with a FPGA and connections for 4-6 ASIC modules (depending on the cape
+version). Note that in addition to the usual dependencies, this driver also
+requires i2c-tools (aka libi2c-dev on some systems). The BBB comes with the
+Ångström Distribution by default. The following is a step by step install for
+BFGMiner on this system;
 
 -----------------Start------------
 cat >/etc/opkg/feeds.conf <<\EOF
@@ -183,8 +185,6 @@ make AR=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-ar
 
 ---------------END-------------
 
-BFGMiner has also been incorporated into an unofficial firmware by uski01 called Bertmod this can be found on the kncminer forum.
-
 ---
 
 This code is provided entirely free of charge by the programmer in his spare

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configure.ac

@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([knc],
 if test "x$knc" = xyes; then
 	AC_CHECK_HEADERS([linux/i2c-dev-user.h])
 	AC_CHECK_DECL([i2c_smbus_read_word_data],[true],[
-		AC_MSG_ERROR([linux/i2c-dev.h header from i2c-tools (NOT linux headers) is required for knc driver])
+		AC_MSG_ERROR([linux/i2c-dev.h header from i2c-tools/libi2c-dev (NOT linux headers) is required for knc driver])
 	],[
 		#include <stddef.h>
 		#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_I2C_DEV_USER_H