[nycbug-talk] [Fwd: UPEK TouchChip TFM/ESS Fingerprint BSP driver for FreeBSD]

[George R.]

For those who have FBSD on IBM ThinkPads, this is a binary, closed 
(icky) driver for the fingerprint reader.

Hopefully I'll be trying this out this week.

(Thanks Massimo. . .)

It would be nice to start centralizing in a NYCBUG format the various 
projects on ThinkPads, combining the various online resources with our 
experiences.  I personally haven't had a chance to do more than tpb, wpa 
& ath0 and a bit more on FBSD 6.0.

George

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: UPEK TouchChip TFM/ESS Fingerprint BSP driver for FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:11:20 +0100
From: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-hackers at shapeshifter.se>
To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org

Hi all,

I just thought that I let you know that UPEK [1] has released a native
FreeBSD driver (binary only, closed source) for their fingerprint
sensors.

UPEK manufactures alot of fingerprint sensors, both built-in and
standalone usb-readers.  You can find them for example in several
notebooks (IBM, Asus, Samsung, NEC, etc).
There is a full list avaiable at
http://www.upek.com/customer/pcnetworking/default.asp

The driver itself is avaiable at
http://www.upek.com/support/dl_freeBSD_bsp.asp
and works as a module to the BioAPI [2] framework.

I've also written a small quick-starting guide which covers the
basics, it's avaiable at
http://shapeshifter.se/articles/upek_touchchip_freebsd/

Please keep in mind that this is all quite new and should
be treated as "beta code".

I should probably point out that I'm not affiliated with
UPEK in any way except for providing their developers guidance in
porting their Linux driver to FreeBSD.

Also, I would like to thank the guys over at UPEK,
especially Martin Konecny, for making this possible.

    Fredrik Lindberg

[1] http://www.upek.com
[2] http://www.bioapi.org
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