[fprint] AuthenTec AES2810 (08ff:2810)

[Anton Krug]

Hi

I found the remark that the "less safe" mode is available, l'm little bit
in awe. I was in belive that there is just the crypto mode and
AuthenTec wouldn't supply protocol documentation to keep it safe, so the
only way to get it working would be reverse engineer it. After couple tries
years ago I just forget about it knowing that most probably won't be
functional in Linux at all. Nice for the company that changed the mind and
supplied the 'less safe' mode protocol specification. Maybe it would be
even nicer if they did from beginning. But better late than never.

In configure.ac I changed the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE version so it will not
complain about mine and it compiled without any problems. I got the demo
working too, for over hour I was forcing to compile completely
the fingerprintGUI, but now that works too and recognizes the reader. Very
nice. :-)

Now I have piece of mind that all my laptops hardware is supported by Linux.

Anton

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Anton Krug <anton.krug at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I have Lenovo W700ds with 2810 and I'm running Debian Lenny which will be
> too old to be able to compile it (require Automake 1.11, but have 1.10.1
> and i guess this will not be the last problem). I delayed upgrade for
> various reasons but this maybe would convince me to do the upgrade. I
> looked at the website:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/aes2550
>
> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/aes2550>there
> is stated that "The aes2550 driver supports devices based on the AuthenTec
> AES2550 and AES2810 chipsets." and then "Crypto engine which is present in
> AES2810 is not supported" so the 2810 is supported but not the crypto, is
> there way to disable it. I would give away the crypto just to have it
> working. When I tried to do the driver for it and sniffed usb bus it looked
> very much encrypted so I gave up, it wasn't anything like other sensors.
> Can you explain me how the non-crypto 2810 support works?
>
> Anton
>
>
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