[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#925930: fprintd: Elan fingerprint reader is not detected

[Lorenzo Ancora]

Package: fprintd
Version: 0.8.1-1
Severity: important

The fprintd daemon is running and the PAM subsystem is configured with its authentication module, but the dongle of Elan Microelectronics Corp. with ID 04f3: 0c28 is not detected, with the consequence that the enrollment of the digital crests is impossible.
Even loading PAM fprintd with "auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so" before PAM UNIX fingerprint authentication has no effect, as if the dongle was not connected. The system acts as if it had no drivers but the dongle is working when compiling libfprint manually: this dongle is supported on GNU/Linux systems via libfprint and natively allows 360° finger authentication, I've tested it in a separate subdirectory with the included sample programs (it produces valid images of the digital crests and recognizes the saved crests).

Could you make the dongle be recognized?

Thank you,
Lorenzo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages fprintd depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  libc6                  2.27-3
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.108-2
ii  libfprint0             1:0.8.2-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.3-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-18+deb9u1
ii  policykit-1            0.105-18+deb9u1

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