How to enable the integrated fingerprint reader - Revision history

Dskrvk: fix ThinkFinger link

2015-12-02T14:10:16Z

fix ThinkFinger link

2015-12-02T14:02:16Z

‎Links: add category

2013-01-05T02:28:41Z

‎Fingerprint GUI: Added warning about license of drivers

2011-08-09T12:41:37Z

‎Binary-only drivers

2011-08-05T16:24:13Z

2011-08-05T16:16:57Z

‎ThinkFinger

2011-08-05T16:16:48Z

‎ThinkFinger

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‎fprint

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2011-08-05T16:10:38Z

‎Free software

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 * [[How to enable integrated fingerprint reader with fprint]] <- Try this first
-* [[How to enable integrated fingerprint reader with ThinkFinger]]
+* [[How to enable the integrated fingerprint reader with ThinkFinger]]
 * [[How to enable integrated fingerprint reader with BioAPI]]

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 * [http://biomark.org.ru/en/ A (Russian) project that provides support for a (different model) of fingerprint scanner] (also a USB device, though)
 * [http://www.qrivy.net/~michael/blua/ A branch of the BioAPI reference implementation]
-* [http://www.pdfserver.net/fingerprint A Gui using the Bioapi driver on thinkpads. Windows like GDM login]
+* [http://www.pdfserver.net/fingerprint A GUI using the BioAPI driver on thinkpads. Windows-like GDM login]
 * [http://www.n-view.net/Appliance/fingerprint/ Fingerprint GUI Project. Allows to use the fingerprint scanner for Login (GDM) and authentication in (sudo, su). Seems to work with T410 and Ubuntu 10.04]

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	Feb 2011: The following works as smoothly on Ubuntu and T410s: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fingerprint-gui		Feb 2011: The following works as smoothly on Ubuntu and T410s: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fingerprint-gui
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		+	Be aware the above packages (and the Fingerprint GUI project) include non-free drivers as indicated on [http://www.n-view.net/Appliance/fingerprint/about.php the project About page].

	===ThinkFinger===		===ThinkFinger===

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 An earlier effort was the [http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net ThinkFinger project]. It only supports the first-generation reader and has not been updated since 2007. See the [[How to enable the integrated fingerprint reader with ThinkFinger]] for detailed instructions. It was included in Debian Lenny but has since been removed from Debian.
-==Binary-only drivers==
+== Non-free software ==
 A closed source driver for the UPEK device is available.  It interfaces to the hardware as a user-space USB driver through {{path|/proc/bus/usb|}} and provides a BioAPI 1.10 device, which can then be interfaced to pam for authentication by user programs.  The driver can be downloaded from [http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/ http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/]. It however tends to be less stable than the above open-source drivers.

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 ==Binary-only drivers==
-A closed source driver for the UPEK device is available.  It interfaces to the hardware as a user-space USB driver through {{path|/proc/bus/usb|}} and provides a BioAPI 1.10 device, which can then be interfaced to pam for authentication by user programs.  The driver can be downloaded from [http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/ http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/]; see the [[How to enable the fingerprint reader|corresponding HOWTO]] for detailed instructions. It however tends to be less stable than the above opensource drivers.
+A closed source driver for the UPEK device is available.  It interfaces to the hardware as a user-space USB driver through {{path|/proc/bus/usb|}} and provides a BioAPI 1.10 device, which can then be interfaced to pam for authentication by user programs.  The driver can be downloaded from [http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/ http://www.upek.com/support/downloads/linux/]. It however tends to be less stable than the above open-source drivers.
 ==Links==

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 ===ThinkFinger===
-Alternatively, the original ThinkFinger project is at http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net. It only provides support for the 1st generation reader, and has not been updated since 2007; see the [[How to enable the integrated fingerprint reader with ThinkFinger]] for detailed instructions. It is also in Debian Lenny. This integrates seamlessly with PAM and doesn't produce a tacky graphical prompt.
+An earlier effort was the [http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net ThinkFinger project]. It only supports the first-generation reader and has not been updated since 2007. See the [[How to enable the integrated fingerprint reader with ThinkFinger]] for detailed instructions. It was included in Debian Lenny but has since been removed from Debian.
 {{HINT|If you've followed the instructions and "tf-tool --verify" works, but nothing else does, make sure that the "uinput" module is loaded.}}

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 ===fprint===
-For some time various projects provided support for various readers. That work mostly been unified under the [http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page fprint] library, and thus libfprint and libpam-fprint (which provides authentication via PAM) are the best way to go, and in the meantime included by default in most Linux distributions. However, it seems that lately this project has stalled, and no support for newer chips has emerged for some time.
+The most current effort to support fingerprint readers is the [http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page fprint project].  The fprint software comprises the libraries <tt>libfprint</tt> and <tt>libpam-fprint</tt> (which provides authentication via PAM) and the daemon <tt>fprintd</tt>.
 ====Fingerprint GUI====

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 Sub-howtos for enabling the [[integrated fingerprint reader]] on ThinkPads:
 * [[How to enable integrated fingerprint reader with BioAPI]]
 ==Free software==