<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello there, </div><div><br></div><div>I have a Elitebook 9470m with Validity sensor device 138a:003d,</div><div>looking around it seems feasible, I'm exactly in the same situation as yours.<br></div><div><br></div><div>regards<br></div><div><br></div><div>gregory Bahde<br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>De: </b>"Damon" <contactdamon@aim.com><br><b>À: </b>"Daniel Päßler" <paessler@gmx.de><br><b>Cc: </b>fprint@lists.freedesktop.org<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 15 Décembre 2014 21:38:21<br><b>Objet: </b><DKIM> Re: [fprint] Device 138a:0007 (VFS451)<br><div><br></div>On 14/10/14 23:02, Daniel Päßler wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> I own this device in an Elitebook 8740w and spent the last days<br>> searching for a solution to get it to work.<br>> <br>> Actually it looks like there is still a bunch of users asking for<br>> support, but as this is an older device, there seems to be no big effort<br>> on getting it to work.<br>> Is there any chance for me (as a non-programmer) to help in any way?<br>> I read a lot about USB-Sniffing, which may be helpful (and some of the<br>> users seems to have already done this).<br>> If I could be able to get one of the Boards off of ebay, would it help<br>> if I send this to a developer?<br>> <br>> There was Linux support from HP for some devices from Validity Inc. in<br>> SUSE Linux Enterprise a few years ago. I found some libraries, scripts,<br>> programs and even patches for libfprint.<br>> Is there a chance that these files (though they are old) can help<br>> developing a driver? Maybe someone can have a look at them, they are here:<br>> <br>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qbbogrkozlomytw/AABcJkDKWk0K9AT6_-g0HDQwa?dl=0<br>> <br>> Is there anything else I can do or provide to help?<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> <br>> Daniel<br><div><br></div>Hi there,<br><div><br></div> also seeking a solution for the Validity VFS451 Fingerprint Reader --<br>on a HP Probook 6540B:<br><div><br></div>$lsusb<br>Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0007 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS451<br>Fingerprint Reader<br><div><br></div>$lsb_release -a<br>Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.7 (wheezy)<br><div><br></div>The latest driver version from HP-SuSE, for the Probook 6540B, was also<br>released somewhere in the year 2011 and is an RPM build. However, I can<br>no longer find that specific release or any othoer. So I've since<br>contacted HP support and just awaiting some reply (URL).<br><div><br></div>... of course I won't hold my breath on that.<br><div><br></div>Because of my lacking of technical software engineering skills I'm<br>probably not of much assistance other than what others have already done<br>-- just locate the latest release of the closed source Linux binaries<br>and submit a URL to the source.<br><div><br></div>Sourcing MULTIPLE HP releases of closed source linux binaries for each<br>variant of their scanner hardware may prove a mission in itself.<br><div><br></div>I've read fprint's Project Needs(recommended reading):<br>http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/Project_needs/<br><div><br></div><br>Regards,<br>Damon<br>_______________________________________________<br>fprint mailing list<br>fprint@lists.freedesktop.org<br>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>