Re: Driver for Microsoft USB Fingerprint Reader

Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-03T18:04:52Z

Hello Alon !
Unfortunately I don't have an accessible thinkpad laptop (luckly the
external usb devices may work the same way). From the USB readers at
http://www.upek.com/products/usb.asp, which one do you think that fits
better the hardware on your laptop ?

I was looking for any place that sells those devices and I could not
find any online (even though I found lots of SDK and matching engines
that supports them, like VeriFinger).

Is there any place where I can buy one of those readers ?

Daniel

On 7/3/06, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/06, Daniel Bonekeeper <thehazard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > I would like to develop a driver for any kind of fingerprint reader
> > that currently doesn't have a driver for linux, and I'm open for
> > suggestions on which device I should use. My first thought was the
> > microsoft usb fingerprint reader
> > (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DG2-00002-DT&cpc=SCH) because
> > it's a new device (and, of course, doesn't have any driver for linux),
> > it's cheap, and it's from MS (read "would be fun" =)
>
> Please consider UPEK reader.
> It is available on all new Thinkpad laptops, and the vendor provides
> only binary drivers.
>
> http://www.upek.com/support/dl_linux_bsp.asp
>
> I hate when vendors like ATI, Conexant and UPEK publish binary drivers
> without publishing the chipset spec... They should decide whether
> their IP is on the software part or on the hardware part, if it is on
> the hardware part, they are making money in selling the hardware. If
> it is on the software part, there is no reason why not providing the
> information for others to write software to work with the primitive
> hardware. So in either case there should be full hardware interface
> disclosure.
>
> Best Regards and Goodluck!
> Alon Bar-Lev.
>

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