shervin soltani wrote: > First of all, hello, everyone! > > It has come to my attention (from firsthand experience) that some UPEK > fingerprint readers with the ID 0483:2016 installed in Sony SZ laptops > fail to cooperate with open source software. This is apparently because > Sony has mandated to UPEK that the device accept a certain key of sorts > before it will respond to the fingerprint reader. As one might guess, > only Windows software gets to have this key. > > This annoying fact aside, UPEK has released a new SDK which works with > BioAPI 1.10. It is available from here: > http://www.upek.com/solutions/pc_and_networking/sdks/linux/DownloadBSP.asp > > I would like to incorporate support for this into libfprint. The SDK is > binary-only. Is this compatible with the fprint license?
No, and the design is also incompatible with fprint's design. Someone (perhaps you?) needs to reverse engineer it, like has been done with UPEKs previous releases. http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/USB_sniffing Daniel _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
