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Fingerprint reader not working (Reader is supported but custom sony firmware prevents it working) #35

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. The fingerprint reader is not recognized by fprint

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Nothing

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Ubuntu 10.04

Please provide any additional information below.

UPEK confirms that even though Sony laptops include a 0483:2016 scanner (which 
would otherwise be supported by upekts), the Sony version has a custom firmware 
designed to prevent any non-Sony software interacting with the device. 
Unfortunately they are successful and fprint, ThinkFinger and UPEK's own Linux 
drivers do not work with the fingerprint scanners in Sony laptops. 

http://web.archive.org/web/20080606233844/http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Sony_V
GN-BX297XP

BUT what I thought is that (correct me if im wrong) the original UPEK firmware 
could be extracter from an oiginal 0483:2016 scanner, and then it could be 
loaded into the 0483:2016 with the sony firmware

Original issue reported on code.google.com by suga92 on 25 Oct 2010 at 10:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Here I found a workaround the fingerprint issue:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fdarkblue.homei
p.net%2Ffingerprint%2FForum%2Ftopic.php%3FTopicId%3D26

This post was posted from my ex account. Then after some reserch I figured out 
that the fingerprint present in the post IS NOT included in new sony vaios.

Mine (VPCs120FL) uses 147e:1001 so If there are others machines that use this 
device, there is a great chance that this could work.

Original comment by amue...@hotmail.com on 2 May 2011 at 4:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
My fingerprint reader:

shiba@VPCS11E7E:~$ lsusb | grep Upek
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 147e:1001 Upek

It is supported by fingerprint-gui. If you use Ubuntu, you can add this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fingerprint-gui

Original comment by shibo...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2011 at 9:39