fingerprint reader

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/10/2010 19:42, O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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
>    

Sorry to read this.

Is this confined to Kubuntu only or to all distros using KDE?

BC

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