{"id":176,"date":"2008-03-20T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/03\/libfprint-v006-and-other-new-devices\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T03:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:52:40","slug":"libfprint-v006-and-other-new-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/03\/libfprint-v006-and-other-new-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"libfprint v0.0.6 and other new devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m not really working on the &#8220;old&#8221; code any more, I released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/Libfprint_v0.0.6\">libfprint v0.0.6<\/a> today. It fixes compatibility with newer DigitalPersona scanners including the ones in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covadis.ch\/Secure-Terminals.96.0.html\">Covadis products<\/a> (who kindly donated hardware to allow for this development). It also adds Gustavo Chain&#8217;s driver for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secugen.com\/products\/ph.htm\">SecuGen Hamster III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Smalley donated a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veridicom.com\/peripherals.html\">Veridicom 5thSense<\/a> scanner, which I reverse engineered and produced a driver for. This driver is only available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/03\/asynchronous-fingerprint-scanning\/\">highly volatile<\/a> libfprint development repository. It works well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.system76.com\/\">System76<\/a> generously donated a laptop with one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/Unsupported_devices#UPEK_TouchStrip_device_variant\">dreaded 147e:2016 UPEK scanners<\/a> so that I can work on getting it supported in fprint. It&#8217;s too early to discuss driver practicalities, but I have almost figured out the image format.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop also includes an integrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qbik.ch\/usb\/devices\/showdev.php?id=4320\">Genesys Logic GL860 USB webcam<\/a> (05e3:0503), not standards compliant and not usable under Linux. I&#8217;ll probably also be working on a driver for this device. Again, I have already almost determined the image format, but have not looked at the rest of the traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m not really working on the &#8220;old&#8221; code any more, I released libfprint v0.0.6 today. It fixes compatibility with newer DigitalPersona scanners including the ones in Covadis products (who kindly donated hardware to allow for this development). It also adds Gustavo Chain&#8217;s driver for the SecuGen Hamster III. Gavin Smalley donated a Veridicom 5thSense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}