[fprint] Adding support for unsupported TouchStrip device.

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

Juan Jesús,


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena
<skandalfo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/13 Juan Jesús García de Soria Lucena <skandalfo at gmail.com>:
>> I attach the lsusb -v of the device at the end of the message.
>
> Excuse me for the spam, but I noticed I dumped the USB info with a
> non-root account. This is the complete data:
>
> Bus 006 Device 002: ID 147e:1000
I have the exact same device, and would appreciate it very much if
anyone managed to get it working :-)

Unfortunately, I cannot program myself, but am ready to test patches,
new code, or acquire logs of scanned fingers and so on. Whatever I can
do.

If you're serious about trying to reverse engineer this device, the
libfprint wiki has some information on how to do sniffing [1]. If you
look through this mailing list's archives [2], particularly of
December and January, you'll find my posts with logs attached (and,
like I said, I can arrange more logs if you need). Finally, you might
want to take a look at the fingerprintGUI [3] application which uses
either libfprint or, optionally, UPEK's binary BSAPI to make your
device work under Linux. UPEK's binary support is very limited, and it
would, indeed, be great if there were open source support available
for this device so that it could be properly integrated with pam,
GNOME and the whole shebang. Best way to use these drivers right now,
would arguably be to use them in order to do some usb sniffing in
Linux (instead of Windows).

I really hope Daniel chimes in and offers to help you out ;-)

All the best,
Khashayar

[1] http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/USB_sniffing
[2] http://lists.reactivated.net/pipermail/fprint/
[3] http://www.n-view.net/Appliance//fingerprint/index.php