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