> > I'd like to help with trying the binary drivers, at least trying > > installing them and trying to get them to work. > > But the link above leads me nowhere, and searching the upek drivers > > area for Linux turns out only a BioAPI based SDK. > > Is the binary driver inside that ? > > http://www.upek.com/solutions/pc_and_networking/sdks/linux/ > I think that's all you need. You can probably find some howto's on the > thinkpad wiki or something like that.
I finally had some free time and gave this a shot. Installed from source the linux-bioapi framework. Then downloaded and installed the UPEK BSP binary module. Then after fiddling a while to get it to build, i ran (as root) the sample included with the BSP, which essentially tries to use the bioapi framework to load the UPEK BSP, initialize it, then do some enrollment. But i never got to that point. The sample fails when initializing the BSP module. Basically it goes like this: - at some point BioAPI_ModuleLoad is called, asking it to load the UPEK binary library - bioapi find the library, and dynamically loads it. and ask the library for the address of its "Load" function. - then it proceeds > > > It looks like that SDK is only for the readers with built-in > > recognition processor. > > That may be true, but what makes you come to that conclusion? > > > I've read in another mailing list (i can't find the link anymore right > > now, sorry) that 147e:2016 is a scanner only, it does not have > > recognition capabilities. A person who contacted upek about a driver > > for it was told that upek supports Linux only for devices with > > recognition features. > > Indeed this appears to be an imaging device. > > > Please let me know where i can get this binary driver from, if it does > > exist at all, so i can try to help further. > > The first step is to figure out the image format. If you'd like to help, > read the thread titled "image format challenges" I started the other day. > > Here is the task we're tracking progress on: > http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/bugs/task/9 > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
