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Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 26 Apr 2016, 01:23
by Jack
I have a Microsoft Fingerprint Reader. Can anyone tell me if it will work in Linux or even better Porteus? My son got it for me about 5 or 10 years ago I can't remember. Here is the link to it.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Finge ... SwDuJWvoFK I have never use it but I did open the package to look at it.
I would like to use for my password for Porteus for login.
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 26 Apr 2016, 03:29
by ncmprhnsbl
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 26 Apr 2016, 03:58
by Jack
In this link
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa ... d_devices/ I found it and I mark with this "* ".
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guest@porteus:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0781:5567
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:00bd *
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
guest@porteus:~$
I might be able to get it to work. If I do I won't have to type in a password.
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 27 Apr 2016, 21:57
by Jack
I check it on dc5750 computer and here is the output.
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guest@porteus:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5581 SanDisk Corp. Ultra
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 045e:00bd Microsoft Corp. Fingerprint Reader
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
guest@porteus:~$
Since it show up to me that a good sign it might work. What do I need to look for to try and make it work? Any help will be great.
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 02 Aug 2016, 01:09
by Jack
I still like to get it to work. I did find this will it need to be in the kernel? Anyone have any idea?
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Vendor Product USB Vendor ID USB Product ID Driver
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader 045e 00bd uru4000
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 02 Aug 2016, 12:28
by wread
@jack
I would startlooking for a driver for that device. There is a "fprintd" in linux that should work for you. Googling you will find it. I guess you can make a Porteus module out of it....
Regards!
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 02 Aug 2016, 14:54
by Jack
I found this for it
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa ... /Download/
And this.
https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+arc ... ntu/fprint
And files.
https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+arc ... /+packages
If these is what I need to make it that would be great.
EDIT:
Here is the files I came up with.
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guest@porteus:~/Downloads/microsoft-fingerprint$ ls *.deb
fprintd_0.4.1-0ppa1~precise1_amd64.deb
gksu-polkit_0.0.3+repack1-0ppa1~trusty1_amd64.deb
libfprint0_0.6.0-git20151216-1-0ppa1~xenial1_amd64.deb
libgksu-polkit0_0.0.3+repack1-0ppa1~trusty1_amd64.deb
libpam-fprintd_0.4.1-0ppa1~precise1_amd64.deb
guest@porteus:~/Downloads/microsoft-fingerprint$
What do anyone think?
Re: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted: 03 Aug 2016, 00:58
by wread
@jack
Those are Debian packages and yes, download them and convert them using deb2xzm. They should work in Porteus. Try it , for shure fprintd is a daemon that should be started first, I guess with a rc.xxxx in etc. or so. Then a main application should do the rest.