IBM Thinkpad's fingerprint scanner

[Sam Leffler]

Alex Povolotsky wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Did anyone try to find out specifications on this cool device, or maybe
> tried to use MS driver for it, or make it to work under FreeBSD with any
> other method?
> 
> It would be nice to use finger instead of password

If this is the UPEK chip there's a package for it that hooks into PAM.
The only downside is it uses a binary library that's 32-bit only (I
wanted it for my amd laptop but haven't been able to figure out how to
cobble together a 32-bit app to work on the 64-bit system).

http://shapeshifter.se/articles/upek_touchchip_freebsd/

has an article about using it.  I just looked but didn't find the
freebsd port for it (pretty sure there is one).

	Sam