Comments on: Update on UPEK fingerprint drivers for FreeBSD

By: Charles Beckham

Charles Beckham — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:45:41 +0000

i am seeing similar problems with FreeBSD 7. although i recieve no additional error information.
same result using ports and the latest driver on upek’s website.

moosiq# bbdm -m filedb -b ‘{5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}’ -c cb
bbdm: Failed to initate BSP {5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}

moosiq# bbdm -l bsp
UUID {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff}
Example Vendor libbioapi_dummy100.so (BioAPI v1.1 Dummy BSP)
UUID {263a41e0-71eb-11d4-9c34-124037000000}
BioAPI Consortium libpwbsp.so (BioAPI Password BSP)
UUID {5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}
UPEK, Inc. libtfmessbsp.so (TouchChip TFM/ESS Fingerprint BSP)

usbdevs -a 2 -v reports:
Controller /dev/usb0:
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 2: full speed, power 100 mA, config 1, Biometric Coprocessor(0×2016), STMicroelectronics(0×0483), rev 0.01

package versions..
bioapi-1.2.2_5 BioAPI library implementation
pam_bsdbioapi-1.5.1 PAM module for BioAPI

uname -a…
FreeBSD moosiq.urbox.org 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jan 20 01:51:03 PST 2010 cb@moosiq.urbox.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

any advice would be greatly appreciated, i am also wondering if i could use the scanner to generate a password for non-pam usage… e.g. to create a private key using a password which is “Generated” from the fingerprint scanner.
this way i could create a crypted filesystem and using my fingerprint as the password..

i’m guessing bioapi would provide functionality for this..

By: kenny

kenny — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:04:51 +0000

Hello.

And in FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE does it work?

I have a problem:

bbdm-b “(5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350)”-m plain-c test
bbdm: Failed to initate BSP (5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350)

[root @ laptop / home / glimm] # bbdm-l bsp
UUID (ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)
Example Vendor libbioapi_dummy100.so (BioAPI v1.1 Dummy BSP)
UUID (263a41e0-71eb-11d4-9c34-124037000000)
BioAPI Consortium libpwbsp.so (BioAPI Password BSP)
UUID (5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350)
UPEK, Inc. libtfmessbsp.so (TouchChip TFM / ESS Fingerprint BSP)

And fprint_demo not find my sensor.

By: gary

gary — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:28:50 +0000

I am looking to start offering this to clients, I will watching this close. Thanks.

By: fli

fli — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:42:33 +0000

Try the version here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122768
Otherwise, you can try fprint instead, http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=fprint

By: Ricardo Cuevas

Ricardo Cuevas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:26:59 +0000

I have a usb fingerprint reader from upek, named eikon. i don’t know model, it’s have three diferents codes “E234672″, “A1H6A0″ and “TCRD4C”.

and i have this result:
rcuevas# bbdm -l bsp
UUID {ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff}
Example Vendor libbioapi_dummy100.so (BioAPI v1.1 Dummy BSP)
UUID {263a41e0-71eb-11d4-9c34-124037000000}
BioAPI Consortium libpwbsp.so (BioAPI Password BSP)
UUID {5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}
UPEK, Inc. libtfmessbsp.so (TouchChip TFM/ESS Fingerprint BSP)

when I make this, I have this result

rcuevas# bbdm -b “{263a41e0-71eb-11d4-9c34-124037000000}” -m plain -c test
Please enter your password for enrollment:
123
Please verify record
Please enter your password for verification:
123
Record for “test” created successfully

but if I make this:
rcuevas# bbdm -b “{5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}” -m plain -c test
/usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2: Undefined symbol “__malloc_lock”bbdm: Failed to initate BSP {5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350}

my usb reader it’s here, dmesg show me:
ugen0: on uhub0

and usbdevs show me
rcuevas# usbdevs
addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel
addr 3: Biometric Coprocessor, UPEK

what i’m doing wrong?

By: Simon Barner

Simon Barner — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:24:32 +0000

I also had the `GuiCallback’ problem with the binary
driver from UPEK.

I did a port of fprint suite today [1], and it works
just fine for me. However, BioAPI’s design for
fingerprint management seems to be more mature: fprint
simply uses the first fingerprint found in ~/.fprint, but
it’s still a very young project.

Comments on the ports welcome (barner at FreeBSD dot org), I plan to commit them as soon has I have some positive feedback. Tests were done with my T61’s UPEK finger print sensor.

[1] home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/fprint.tar.gz

By: fli

fli — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:08:14 +0000

That’s interesting…at least my contact guy could have told me that the did a release. I’m going to see if I can get the release from their website to work and update the port if it works. I was given a driver a while back that did work, at least the console one.

By: Benjamin Saunders

Benjamin Saunders — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:23:31 +0000

My updated Makefile and distinfo are at http://kiri.nonexiste.net/~ralith/bsp_upektfmess/Makefile and http://kiri.nonexiste.net/~ralith/bsp_upektfmess/distinfo respectively.

By: Benjamin Saunders

Benjamin Saunders — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:20:47 +0000

UPEK has actually recently updated their drivers, and an allegedly compatible driver is now available from http://www.upek.com/solutions/pc_and_networking/sdks/linux/
However, I’ve been unable to get this to work. (installed by modifying the existing port to take the updated .zip) There’s something going on with an undefined symbol “GuiCallback,” but that could, however unlikely, be a problem on my end.