[ltp] UPEK driver expiring in about a month?

[Alex Deucher]

On 11/25/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@linuxwireless.org> wrote:
> Jiang Qian wrote:
>
> >Hi There:
> >Do anyone notice that both betas of the UPEK driver is expiring in
> >about a month in the new year? They really mean it! I set my computer
> >date to next year and get a message "the driver has expired" when using
> >fingerprint reader! This is a grave threat to my computer lifestyle:)
> >Is there any workaround other than setting the date back a year when
> >new year come and wait for new driver?
> >
> >
> Why would they do such stupid thing? I swear I will rip off the
> fingerprint reader if they charge for this driver.
>
> I hope they just do it so one doesn't keep an *old* driver. And still,
> they are not doing things the Linux way.
>

you're best bet would be to RE the driver while it's still working so
we would have a open driver, or better yet, don't buy their stuff
until they release the source.

Alex

>  .Alejandro
>
> >Also anyone has the problem of beta 2 version of driver segmentation
> >fault when using under GUI? If I go into NonGUI_Sample and run ./Sample
> >it segmentation fault without letting me enrolling. It works fine under
> >console, both to enroll and to log in.  And beta 1 version of driver
> >works both for console and GUI.  This is a ubuntu hoary box with bioapi
> >1.2.2 compiled from source with --with-Qt-dir=3Dno flag(couldn't get it
> >to compile with qt).  The hardware is thinkpad T43.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for answering. I'm not in linux-biometric list so
> >please cc me personally, too, at qian2@fas.harvard.edu when you reply to
> >the list! Thanks again!
> >
> >Jiang
> >
> >
>
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