fingerprint reader

[O. Sinclair]

On 06/10/2010 10:32, Cary Bielenberg wrote:
>
>
> On 06/10/10 18:16, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 06/10/2010 09:48, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2010 18:24, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> On 06/10/2010 09:06, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 06/10/2010 17:17, O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there someone with experience of getting a fingerprint-reader on a
>>>>>> laptop working for identification/password purposes?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have tried searching around internet but not found anything very
>>>>>> informative on how to go about this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>> Sinclair
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, "O" but I don't think you have really tried.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried Google with "fingerprint reader + laptop" and even adding
>>>>> "...+ linux" if you are using, say, Ubuntu"?
>>>>>
>>>>> There are some 1.13million "hits" to the first search option. Surley one
>>>>> of them would answer your question, no?
>>>>>
>>>>> BC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> And given this is a Kubuntu list - yes I do use Kubuntu 10.04
>>>>
>>> But Kubuntu *IS* Linux isn't it?
>>>
>>> BC
>>>
>> Not that it is my business but did you wake up on the wrong side or
>> something?
>>
>> Best
>> Sinclair
>>
> Ok there might be gazillions of references to fingerprint reader in
> Goggle land but to my knowledge there is no support for Fingerprint
> reader in KDE4. I used to have it working in 3.x but every new laptop I
> buy I go through the paces of trying get them going but to no avail yet.
> I have a bug reported at kde.org

Yes it seems  you are correct.. there is a looong thread on ubuntuforums 
I eventually found but frankly it does not seem worth the effort of even 
trying to get it working.

Then there is this:
http://blog.djaara.net/wordpress/kategorie/english/kfingermanager/
but it has no maintainer so Sergio has refused to incorporate it in KDE

/Sinclair