Biometric authentication

[Chris MacDonald]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Thiago Cavalcante
<tlcavalcante at gmail.com> wrote:
> The output is:
>
> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 138a:0001 DigitalPersona, Inc Fingeprint Reader
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0
> multicard reader
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0137 Acer, Inc
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>
> The highlighted line is the biometric reader.
> Try the link now, my model is on the list of supported devices.

The FPrint list is probably the best place to get help with this. I've
played with a microsoft fingerprint reader before using fprint-demo
from the Ubuntu repositories and it worked just fine. I don't know if
fprint-demo is still current though, so again, the fprint list is
probably the best place to look.

Chris

> 2010/11/10 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
>> On 11/08/2010 02:37 AM, Thiago Cavalcante wrote:
>>> Dear,
>>>
>>> I have an HP Pavilion dv5-1260br has biometric authentication. I would
>>> like to utlize it with Ubuntu 10.10, does anyone know if you have
>>> hardware support and how to install?
>>
>> Perhaps?
>> https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint
>> http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Supported_devices
>>
>> What is the output of:
>>
>> $ lsusb
>>
>>
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