2008/12/12 Daniel Drake <[email protected]>: > Nikolay Vladimirov wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> About a week ago I bought thinkpad r500 and it has AES2810. I looked >> around and as >> I understand it's not being worked on and it's not going to be. Since >> I have the hardware and >> I'm an embeded linux developer ( i know my way in low-level and kernel >> stuff :) ) I think I can try to get it working. > > It's not that we don't plan to work on it, it's just that we are currently > at a dead end. See > http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Unsupported_devices#AuthenTec_AES2550_.26_AES2810 > >> 1. Can I do this without windows since it's a major pain to reinstall it? > > There are 3 options: > 1. Obtain technical documentation from authentec and write a driver from > that info. (does not require windows, but is unlikely to happen) > 2. Perform chinese-wall reverse engineering on an authentec driver. > Does not require windows for the person who writes the resulting > fprint driver. But this is extremely time consuming and requires 2 > people. > 3. Figure it out through bus traffic analysis and experimentation (this > is how all of the fprint drivers have been created). This requires > you to run the device under a configuration where it works, so > windows is probably your only option. > >> 2. Where can I find some general guidelines for the process of writing >> a fingerprint reader driver? I need some starting point. > > The 3rd option is introduced here: > http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2005/08/reverse-engineering/ > > Daniel >
Thank for all your help. I'll look in to it in more detail this weekend. -- NV _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
