{"id":191,"date":"2008-07-09T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2022-06-24T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:02:15","slug":"upek-touchstrip-sensor-only-147e2016-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/07\/upek-touchstrip-sensor-only-147e2016-on-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"UPEK TouchStrip Sensor-only (147e:2016) on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/images\/Fprint_logo_scaled.png\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAs part of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/\">fprint<\/a> fingerprint scanning on Linux efforts, I have completed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/Upeksonly\">new driver<\/a> for a popular bit of hardware that has been unsupported on Linux until now: the UPEK TouchStrip sensor-only variant with USB ID 147e:2016.<\/p>\n<p>We have already supported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/Upekts\">another variant<\/a> including a biometric co-processor for some time now, but in the absence of the co-processor, the sensor-only variant required a completely different driver. Support for the sensor-only devices is a significant step forward as this hardware can be found in a lot of laptops. I&#8217;ve already received some <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.reactivated.net\/fprint\/bugs\/index.php?do=details&amp;task_id=9\">success reports<\/a> &#8211; thanks!<\/p>\n<p>The driver is only available in libfprint development repositories (not any released versions). System76 have created an <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge76.com\/index.php\/Fingerprint_Reader_Installation\">installation guide<\/a> which may be useful for keen users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my fprint fingerprint scanning on Linux efforts, I have completed a new driver for a popular bit of hardware that has been unsupported on Linux until now: the UPEK TouchStrip sensor-only variant with USB ID 147e:2016. We have already supported another variant including a biometric co-processor for some time now, but in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fingerprinting","category-gentoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}