Fingerprint Authentec AES2810

[Grieff]

Has someone experience with installation of sensors Fingerprint Authentec AES2810?

[rjwilmsi]

I have a ThinkPad X200s with the AES2810 fingerprint reader (USB ID 09ff:2810), as confirmed by lsusb. Version 0.5.0 of libfprint (package libfprint0) supports this reader, opensuse factory libfprint0 package added this driver on 1 April 2013. I have updated my opensuse 12.3 installation to upgrade to the factory versions of libfprint0 (0.5 from 0.4), yast2-fingerprint-reader, yet after rebooting the YAST module still reports that no fingerprint reader is available. With the driver added I’d expect to be able to follow the instructions at https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-security/cha.security.fp.html but if YAST won’t detect the reader, I’m stuck.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

[consused]

@rjwilmsi

I have a ThinkPad X200s with the AES2810 fingerprint reader (USB ID 09ff:2810), as confirmed by lsusb. Version 0.5.0 of libfprint (package libfprint0) supports this reader, opensuse factory libfprint0 package added this driver on 1 April 2013. I have updated my opensuse 12.3 installation to upgrade to the factory versions of libfprint0 (0.5 from 0.4), yast2-fingerprint-reader, yet after rebooting the YAST module still reports that no fingerprint reader is available. With the driver added I’d expect to be able to follow the instructions at https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-security/cha.security.fp.html but if YAST won’t detect the reader, I’m stuck.

That’s a bit optimistic. There is no factory snapshot available yet for you to download, test, and write bug reports against the YaST module when it fails. I don’t think that will happen until Development’s Milestone testing begins for the next release (13.1). You can search the Wiki for a routemap/schedule (not sure if it’s available yet).

I’m still waiting for my ThinkPad’s fingerprint sensor to have a linux driver supported by openSUSE, after over 3 years. Your situation seems more hopeful.

[dshadowwolf]

It took some work, but all you need is the latest ‘git’ of libfprint, pam_fprint and yast-fingerprint-reader and the sources to hwinfo. The first three you can just configure and build and things will work. The last one you have to add the devices identification to hwinfo/src/ids/src/special - the format is self-explanatory and the two numbers you need are the vendor and device ID’s from the lsusb output. Then you’ll need to change the top-level makefile so the ‘LIBDIR=’ line points to the right place - /usr/lib for 32bit and /usr/lib64 if you’re building x86_64

I did this and it does work. I could add my changes to my local copy of the git repo and generate a couple patches if people want them.

[rjwilmsi]

@dshadowwolf

It took some work, but all you need is the latest ‘git’ of libfprint, pam_fprint and yast-fingerprint-reader and the sources to hwinfo. The first three you can just configure and build and things will work. The last one you have to add the devices identification to hwinfo/src/ids/src/special - the format is self-explanatory and the two numbers you need are the vendor and device ID’s from the lsusb output. Then you’ll need to change the top-level makefile so the ‘LIBDIR=’ line points to the right place - /usr/lib for 32bit and /usr/lib64 if you’re building x86_64

I did this and it does work. I could add my changes to my local copy of the git repo and generate a couple patches if people want them.

Good news! Personally I’d rather not be working with local compiles and patches, prefer to wait for next opensuse release to autodetect for me. Will the required change to hwinfo make it into the main package, or is it something that you could post as a patch to the maintainer of that package?

[collinm]

check fingerprint gui

http://pmbs-api.links2linux.org:8080/home:/dap/openSUSE_12.3/x86_64/

support many proprietary printer…