[fprint] Unsupported UPEK device

[Bruno Medeiros]

Jacob, unfortunatelly this device is not supported, as you can see on the
history os this list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fprint@reactivated.net/msg01123.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/fprint@reactivated.net/msg01166.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/fprint@reactivated.net/msg00798.html

and many others.

There are bugs for this device on major distros:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/301567
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474994



On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:26, Jacob McGladdery <jacobm117 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've installed libfprint, fprint-demo and libpam-fprint from the Synaptic
> Package Manager. I checked the libfprint version and it gave me is the
> latest stable one. When I run fprint-demo it says "No devices found."
>
> OS is Ubuntu 8.10
>
> This UPEK fingerprint scanner is embedded in an Acer Aspire laptop.
>
> lsusb output for this device: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 147e:1000 Upek
> Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor
>
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