[tlinux-users:08403] Re: Fingerprint Reader Happiness

Talking about fingerprint readers, does anybody know if I could upgrade my
Satellite P100 to have such fingerprint reader?

Cheers,
Manuel


On 2/22/07, Christopher Covington <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm not under the impression that Toshiba laptops with fingerprint
> readers are very common. I've got one on my A105-S4014 however and
> perhaps the readers of this list are more likely to spring for such
> snazzy technology than our Windows-using fellow Toshiba consumers. The
> thinkfinger project [1] supports the PEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics
> fingerprint reader which is one of the two that Toshiba ships their
> laptops with. The SGS Thompson device is connected internally via USB
> and lshw gives me the following info on it:
>
> product: Biometric Coprocessor
> vendor: STMicroelectronics
> bus info: usb@2:2
> version: 0.01
> capabilities:
>         USB 1.0
> configuration:
>         maxpower: 100mA
>         speed: 12,0MB/s
>
> Thinkfinger doesn't support the other reader that Toshiba ships which
> is made by AuthenTec. Last year I had played around a little with
> various packages and source code but without much success. I'm very
> happy to report that at least on Gentoo all you have to do is emerge
> the package and follow the directions regarding creating a fingerprint
> image for each user and editing the PAM configuration [2]. I'm really
> ecstatic that it just works (tm). I'm prompted with Password or swipe
> finger: these days at login prompts. Anyhow, yeah just wanted to share
> the joy and perhaps a tidbit of knowledge.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
> 1. http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/
> 2.
> http://thinkfinger.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/thinkfinger/README
>
>