Biometrics

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Thu Apr 17 17:44:58 UTC 2008


Chris wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have this nifty laptop that I removed XP from but would love to use
> the fingerprint reader.
> 
> Is there such software to use w/Fedora?

Depends on the scanner.  On my HP DV6000, libfprint works.  It's an
AuthenTec scanner with a USB ID of 08ff:2580.
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