[Fingerforce-devel] authentec 1610

[Miguel Gea Milvaques]

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Parpaing wrote:
> Hi !
> I've seen you're working on fingerprint readers support on linux. I
> contact you because I have a few questions about that.
> I own a notebook with an Authentec 1610 fingerprint reader. I
> couldn't find any driver for that, so I worked on it.
> I've created a user mode driver (included in this mail, based on the
> one for aes2501 available at www.ag-networking.com) which is able to
> create a xpm file containing the fingerprint.

UAU!!! Good work!!!
>
> Now I'm a little bit confused about the next steps for this driver.
> I know there are some developments on pam and bioapi. So I don't
> know exactly what to do now in order to make this driver work
> correctly with bioapi/pam/etc.

Here there are a lot of work to do. We are writing a daemon a pam
module and modules for each driver. This is in early steps yet and
there are not released software yet (in fact It's only on my svn...)
It will need integration with fvs (a fingerprint recognition) and
other works... there are a long work to do.
>
> I thought maybe I could try to create a kernel mode driver, and
> maybe include it with the one existing for aes 2501 to make it more
> generic. But before doing that I would like to know exactly what
> should be done by this driver.
> For example, the image I get is constitued of several more or less
> overlapping frames: should the driver reconstitute a correct image
> deleting the overlapping regions or should it be done by another
> piece of code? Is there some transformations the driver should do on
> the image? etc etc.
Maybe you could do both. One function able to get the raw scanned
image and other with a reconstituted image. If somebody develops a
different overlaping function improving yours, it could be used insted
yours.

In other hand, there are a project to create a aes2501 kernel module
driver (http://home.gna.org/aes2501/index_en.html) It's still in its
firsts stages and maybe it will be a good idea to integrate with it.
There are a few channels on irc where you could ask or talk. In
irc.oftc.net you have #fingerforce, and #aes2501 and in
irc.freenode.net #linuxbiometrics


I'd like to upload it to Fingerforce (and Debian) but it has not
license file neither license in .c file.... If you add it I'll upload
immediatelly!!!!

Thanks for your work!!!
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