[ltp] Fingerprint Reader

Alejandro Bonilla Beeche linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:48:33 -0600


Arnaud Fontaine wrote:

>>>>>>"Alejandro" == Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@linuxwireless.org> writes:
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>    Alejandro> Hi, Can someone actually make things easier and just
>    Alejandro> create a simple .deb that contains the bioapi, UPEK
>    Alejandro> driver and patched pam_bioapi? A simple and straight deb
>    Alejandro> package that is for people that have a fingerprint
>    Alejandro> reader? ;-)
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>Hello,
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>I have filled two ITP (Intend  To Package), one for bioapi and the other
>one for pam-bioapi. I think it  will be ready in the next weeks. However
>the  UPEK driver  is non-free  so we  won't package  it for  Debian, but
>hopefully this driver is really easy to install.
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>Concerning your problem, personnally  i installed bioapi package made by
>Michael,  take a  look at  [1]. Did  you install  build-essential debian
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I did not, thanks!!! I'm downloading now, let's see and I'll let you know.

Thanks for pushing into Sid the debian packages, but could we have a 
Upek driver .deb anyway? Someone else can make a repo to support it. I 
could.

.Alejandro

>package ?
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>Regards,
>
>[1] http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p_fingerprint_reader
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