Authentec Aes2501 Fingerprint Reader

Hi,

I recently got a new lappy from my employer. It is a Fujitsu Lifebook E series. I cannot complain about hardware recognition on openSUSE 10.3: most of the hardware got recognized without problems. The only thing I am having trouble with is the fingerprint reader: a Authentec AES2501.

After finishing installation, SuSE detected the presence of a fingerprint reader and presented a configuration dialog. The problem is that I did not know the vendor and model and I cancelled configuration. I then rebooted to windows to take a look for the needed information. That's where I found out it is a Authentec AES2501.

Yesterday, after finishing installing/upgrading some packages, I decided to try to configure it. I went into YaST's hardware section for the fingerprint reader/scanner configuration tool and now YaST says it couldn't find any fingerprint reader.

Do you know how to make suse recognize it again?
I did some googling and I found out there is some driver for that very same model: aes2501. Do I need to install it or should YaST take care of that?

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

I do not if this would be of any help because I did not see your model mentioned but
http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Fingerprint_Authentication
mentions some package modules to load might give that a try.

Hi,

I recently got a new lappy from my employer. It is a Fujitsu Lifebook E series. I cannot complain about hardware recognition on openSUSE 10.3: most of the hardware got recognized without problems. The only thing I am having trouble with is the fingerprint reader: a Authentec AES2501.

After finishing installation, SuSE detected the presence of a fingerprint reader and presented a configuration dialog. The problem is that I did not know the vendor and model and I cancelled configuration. I then rebooted to windows to take a look for the needed information. That's where I found out it is a Authentec AES2501.

Yesterday, after finishing installing/upgrading some packages, I decided to try to configure it. I went into YaST's hardware section for the fingerprint reader/scanner configuration tool and now YaST says it couldn't find any fingerprint reader.

Do you know how to make suse recognize it again?
I did some googling and I found out there is some driver for that very same model: aes2501. Do I need to install it or should YaST take care of that?

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
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I have the same device on an HP Pavillion dv9572EA. There are no working linux drivers for this device as yet, there are some experimental packages with very limited capability. Check here,

http://home.gna.org/aes2501/index_en.html
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=3444

I do not if this would be of any help because I did not see your model mentioned but
http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Fingerprint_Authentication
mentions some package modules to load might give that a try.
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Thank you. I will give it a go.
I also made a search on google for ThinkFinger and found there is a fprint package that is supposed to work with my model (as reported on ubuntu forums): it seems to be able to use the aes2501 driver.

I have many things to try. I'll post back.

Thank you. I will give it a go.
I also made a search on google for ThinkFinger and found there is a fprint package that is supposed to work with my model (as reported on ubuntu forums): it seems to be able to use the aes2501 driver.

I have many things to try. I'll post back.
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ThinkFinger is for the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics device not the aes2501. Take a look here,

http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Fingerprint_Authentication

Edit:

Also here,

http://thinkfinger.svn.sourceforge.net/vie...inger/README.in

"Toshiba is shipping their laptops either with the UPEK/SGS Thomson Micro-
electronics fingerprint reader or with a fingerprint reader built by AuthenTec.
The AuthenTec fingerprint reader is *not* supported by ThinkFinger."

Thank you winxp_escapee.

I have installed fprint's three modules: libfprint, fprint_demo and pam_fprint. It looks like fprint is using the aes2501 experimental driver.

I did some tests (with fprint_demo) and it seems to be reading my fingerprint correctly. I registered my fingerprint and then tried to set up pam so that it uses the pam_fprint module to authenticate. What I wanted to achieve was, at kde login, to be able to use the fingerprint reader and if that failed, then use normal password login.

I kinda achieved what i was trying to do, at least that was the case at the very beginning. But after a reboot, it does not seem to be able to recognize my fingerprint and when I enter the password it asks again for my fingerprint. I imagine I did something wrong when configuring pam.

This is what I did: changed /etc/pam.d/xdm (because I want to use fprint authentication on kde login only)

from:

...
auth****import** common-auth
...

to:

...
#auth****import** common-auth
auth**** required** pam_env.so
auth**** sufficient**pam_fprint.so
auth**** sufficient**pam_unix2.so
...

I did not want to change common-auth directly because it would make the system use pam_fprint in all circumstances.
BTW, this is what common-auth looks like on my system:

auth**** required** pam_env.so
auth**** required** pam_unix2.so

Any ideas/suggestions?