On Sunday 04 Oct 2009 4:01:08 pm Daniel Drake wrote: > Just added a section to the top of > http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Unsupported_devices > > The situation right now is a bit regrettable, due to lack of people > involved on the development side, and challenges introduced by the > current generation of fingerprint scanning devices. Personally, I'm not > finding time, and also I've got 2 unsupported devices here which are > giving me headaches, I've spent hours on each one and am not making > progress. :( > > > > > There do not appear to be any active driver development efforts > happening at the moment. > > Plenty of users have published USB sniff logs on the mailing list for > many of the devices below, the next step is for someone to step up, > examine these logs and write driver code. This is a very difficult task > if said developer does not have a good level of knowledge of USB and the > workings of similar devices, and is impractically time consuming if the > developer does not have access to the hardware. >
Yes, I have access to hardware, but no skills in USB - which means I need to invest a lot more time in understanding the fundamentals. It looks rather difficult to spare time with office workload. :( In fact, I haven't been able to dedicate time to understand the sniff logs that I generated quite some time ago :( If you can point me to some starting points for how to go about understanding USB stuff, I'll try to at least start with it. > In short: what we need right now is skilled developers who have done > this kind of driver-development before, who have access to the hardware, > and a lot of time on their hands. You're unlikely to spur progress by > posting further sniff logs to the mailing list. As you correctly put here, having free time is the problem for most of us.:( PS: why is it that I end up getting flood of emails from the list at one go - for mails going as back as a month? Kunal _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
