On 14/10/14 23:02, Daniel Päßler wrote: > Hi, > > I own this device in an Elitebook 8740w and spent the last days > searching for a solution to get it to work. > > Actually it looks like there is still a bunch of users asking for > support, but as this is an older device, there seems to be no big effort > on getting it to work. > Is there any chance for me (as a non-programmer) to help in any way? > I read a lot about USB-Sniffing, which may be helpful (and some of the > users seems to have already done this). > If I could be able to get one of the Boards off of ebay, would it help > if I send this to a developer? > > There was Linux support from HP for some devices from Validity Inc. in > SUSE Linux Enterprise a few years ago. I found some libraries, scripts, > programs and even patches for libfprint. > Is there a chance that these files (though they are old) can help > developing a driver? Maybe someone can have a look at them, they are here: > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qbbogrkozlomytw/AABcJkDKWk0K9AT6_-g0HDQwa?dl=0 > > Is there anything else I can do or provide to help? > > Thanks, > > Daniel
Hi there, also seeking a solution for the Validity VFS451 Fingerprint Reader -- on a HP Probook 6540B: $lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0007 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS451 Fingerprint Reader $lsb_release -a Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.7 (wheezy) The latest driver version from HP-SuSE, for the Probook 6540B, was also released somewhere in the year 2011 and is an RPM build. However, I can no longer find that specific release or any othoer. So I've since contacted HP support and just awaiting some reply (URL). ... of course I won't hold my breath on that. Because of my lacking of technical software engineering skills I'm probably not of much assistance other than what others have already done -- just locate the latest release of the closed source Linux binaries and submit a URL to the source. Sourcing MULTIPLE HP releases of closed source linux binaries for each variant of their scanner hardware may prove a mission in itself. I've read fprint's Project Needs(recommended reading): http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/Project_needs/ Regards, Damon _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
