[Thinkfinger-devel] Thinkfinger-devel Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

[Karl H. Beckers]

Message: 1
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:28:26 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Thinkfinger-devel] tf-tool --acquire doesn't seem to do
anything?!?
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Hi there,
have this sgs thomson fingerprint reader on my toshiba tecra m9 and was
hoping for thinkfinger to enable that. I build from source, but running
tf-tool gave me a prompt to swipe, but never any further reaction (should
the fingerprint reader light up?). Been swiping for ages and nothing
happened, no error message, but no success either. Compiling with
usb-debug gave me tons of bulk reads.
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint

Hi again,

anybody have any idea for how to go about debugging this?

Somewhere I read that sane would detect the reader but it doesn't do that
for me. Is there a problem with the reader? Do I need to explicitly enable
it (like the internal bluetooth device)?

Any hints or rtfms are appreciated.

TIA,

Karl.