I am hoping that someone here can help. I have a APC fingerprint scanner that worked with winXP. I have installed several packages from repo’s but neither of them has helped.
Does anyone here use this device and how did you make it work.
try
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_integrated_fingerprint_reader_with_fprint
as that’s a debian wiki replace apt-get with zypper and check the repo’s for the appropriate packages
https://software.opensuse.org/package/fprintd
https://software.opensuse.org/package/fprintd-pam
maybe the hardware forum is a better place for this question.
This one click install says 13.2, would it make a difference if I am using 13.1
Better do not mix.
This one click install says 13.2, would it make a difference if I am using 13.1
There are 13.1 packages they’re in the hardware repo, click show unstable packages to get the 1 click link
those are stable packages they’re just not in the main 13.1 repo.
you could use zypper
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_13.1/hardware.repo
sudo zypper in fprintd fprintd-pam
I have had these files for some time now. I have not been able to get any working results from them.
did you follow the instructions from
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_integrated_fingerprint_reader_with_fprint
does opensuse recognize your scanner
does your scanner appear when running lsusb?
if it does then follow the article’s example if not, do some more googling, maybe see the manufacturer’s home page.
Maybe I should have hunted in support direction, rather than driver direction.
It is now apparent to me that my device is not supported yet according to web site.
But the site was last updated in 2013.
I hope someone is diligently working on the project. I don’t want to throw my scanners away yet.
I have to assume that my scanners may never be usable. Are there other devices that can be used with opensuse13.1 or 13.2 at log in. And supported at this time.
why not try a google search, all linux distributions share 99,9% of the Kernel someone using another distribution might have gotten it working.
what does lsusb show, how does that peace of hardware connect, the above article was for usb based readers.
As it is an old peace of hardware the probability of getting it up and running is pretty high…
try asking this in the hardware section you might get a better responce.
edit
if your device is not recognized by fprintd
file a bug report
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=libfprint
thanks…
You might want to see the thread Fingerprint Reader and openSUSE 13.2 - SOLVED