[tlinux-users:08404] Re: Fingerprint Reader Happiness
"Christopher R. Hertel" <[email protected]>
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My running lsusb on my Portege M400 gives me: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader Looks as though the M400 also has that reader. Cool. :) Thanks for the info! Chris -)----- Christopher Covington 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 > -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected]