[Thinkfinger-devel] Usb id 147e:2016 supported?

[Patrick]

Hi all,

First post to the list. Recently got a new laptop with a fingerprint
reader (Acer TM6465). Got the following info from WinXP: UPEK TouchChip
Fingerprint Coprocessor. Both WinXP & lsusb shows that it has usb id:
147e:2016. I downloaded thinkreader 0.3, installed it and tried if it
worked. Obviously it did not because it looks for usb major id 0483. I
changed the value to 147e in libthinkfinger.c, rebuilt with usb debug
enabled and tried again but it does not work. Any idea if it can work at
all? Here is some output with --verbose:

[***@laptop ~]# tf-tool --verbose --add-user patrick

ThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <***@suse.de>

Running in verbose mode.

* Mode: acquire
* Biometric identification record file:
'/etc/pam_thinkfinger/patrick.bir'

Initializing...Error: usb_bulk_read (-110)

usb_bulk_write (0x11/0x11): 4369616f0400080100e8030000ff07db24
Error: usb_bulk_read (-110)

usb_bulk_write (0x10/0x10): 4369616f00000728040000000604c0d6
Error: usb_bulk_read (-110)

The error keeps coming back so after a while I stopped it.

Thanks,
Patrick

[Timo Hoenig]

Hi Patrick,

Post by Patrick
First post to the list. Recently got a new laptop with a fingerprint
reader (Acer TM6465). Got the following info from WinXP: UPEK TouchChip
147e:2016. I downloaded thinkreader 0.3, installed it and tried if it
worked. Obviously it did not because it looks for usb major id 0483. I
changed the value to 147e in libthinkfinger.c, rebuilt with usb debug
enabled and tried again but it does not work. Any idea if it can work at

Sounds interesting, unfortunately I haven't got that device myself yet.
Can you confirm that the binary driver works with the device? I don't
think so, but please let me know if my assumption is correct.

Thanks,

Timo