On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Dear Friends, >> > >> > >> > I am using HP PAVILION dm4-1009TU Laptop and it has a finger print >> reader. >> > When i bought it came with Windows 7 and i used it to login into my >> account >> > but the reader is dead in Ubuntu and Mint i have tried " Fprint-demo" it >> > does not even detects it. Please help me out to get it active >> >> I doubt if it will work. These are USB connected internal devices and >> need drivers. >> as far as I'm aware, these devices use a Broadcom chip. Apart from >> this, the windows login module has been integrated with this device >> specifically. > > > My wireless device is made by Broadcom and in additional Drivers it > detected and working fine. Do you know any driver that support my Finger > Print Reader although am not sure about who is the manufacturer. Thanks for > your reply too :-) > Just now i tried to find the name of the manufacturer for my FingerPrint Reader using 'lsusb' command and here is the output that gives the name: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0005 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS301 Fingerprint Reader Its Validity Sensors, Inc. and when i surfed on their site i found this statement: "Does the Validity fingerprint sensor support Linux based operating systems? Validity does not offer Linux drivers and software direct to consumers. We are working with our qualified software partners to develop Linux based solutions. If you are a software developer and want to become a qualified Validity solution provider for Linux-based solutions, visit http://www.validityinc.com/solution_providers.aspx " It looks like even though if they develop the driver for Linux Operating Systems, it is not going to be FOSS driver, So is there any Free open source driver that supports this device? Even i tried with pam_fprint , it does not detects the device. From this issue i feel like i wanted to develop my own driver for this hardware but don't know anything about how to program for Linux drivers. All i know is Linux Device Drives has .so extension. Any sort of help is welcome, either recommending any other driver for this device or helping me to get started with Linux Device Driver development for this driver. Thanks for reading this with patience. -- Regards, Prasanna Venkadesh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PuduvaiLUG (puduvai Linux Users Group): http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/ FOSS Jobs all over India: http://fossjobs.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
