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Atreides

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Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 60

Fingerprint reader functionality in Arch; possible?

Thus far I am loving my first (actual) install of Arch, but am begginning to miss the use of my fingerprint reader. If theres no way it will work, I suppose thats ok, but I feel like its a waste of some nifty hardware.

I have a Thinkpad X60s. Let me know if any other information is needed, and what I'd need to install/configure to get the fingerprint scanner working (if its even possible).

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: Fingerprint reader functionality in Arch; possible?

google?

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrate … int_Reader

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sand_man

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Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: Fingerprint reader functionality in Arch; possible?

I actually forgot my laptop had one!

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Atreides

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Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 60

Re: Fingerprint reader functionality in Arch; possible?

google?

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrate … int_Reader

Sorry, long day yesterday...

I installed it through pacman, added "uinput" to "modules" in rc.conf, then used "tf-tool --verify" to scan my fingers. It worked perfectly to that point, but what exactly do I have to do to make it so that it asks for a scan on login? Theres so many distros listed on the thinkwiki page, I'm not sure what I need to do.

leeyee

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From: Kingston, Canada

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 150

Re: Fingerprint reader functionality in Arch; possible?

Sigh...the fingerprint reader on my Thinkpad T400 is still explicitly claimed as "unsupported". This model has been out for more than a year.....

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Mr.Elendig

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Re: Fingerprint reader functionality in Arch; possible?

google?

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrate … int_Reader

Sorry, long day yesterday...

I installed it through pacman, added "uinput" to "modules" in rc.conf, then used "tf-tool --verify" to scan my fingers. It worked perfectly to that point, but what exactly do I have to do to make it so that it asks for a scan on login? Theres so many distros listed on the thinkwiki page, I'm not sure what I need to do.

Read up on the pam_fprint module for pam.

Edit: btw, fingerprint is horribly insecure, a good password is way better.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-12-16 16:12:09)

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