Linux Driver for BCM5880 Fingerprint Swipe Sensor

[n00b 101]

Hi,

I have installed Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon) on a Dell Latitude
E6520 and would like to get the fingerprint sensor to work. Information
from lsusb command is


Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications
Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor

I searched a linux driver for BCM5880 for three days and the conclusion is
that BCM5880 Fingerprint Sensor currently has no linux driver. I just want
to know if I am on the right track.

Thanks,
n00b

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Post by n00b 101
Hi,
I have installed Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon) on a Dell Latitude
E6520 and would like to get the fingerprint sensor to work. Information
from lsusb command is

Why, exactly, do you want it?

Given the demonstrably poor return-on-investment of finigerprint
security, and the ease of defeating most fingerprint scanners with
bkack&white printouts of copied fingerprints, they're not the
biometric marvel claimed by the vendors of such technology. Are you
trying to simply scan fingerprints for anlysiis, in which case a
Windows VM running under Xen or KVM or VirtualBox should work well? Or
do you actually need it for Linux user authentication?

Post by n00b 101
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications
Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor
I searched a linux driver for BCM5880 for three days and the conclusion is
that BCM5880 Fingerprint Sensor currently has no linux driver. I just want
to know if I am on the right track.
Thanks,
n00b

[n00b 101]

The sensor comes with the machine. I have been trying to make it work with SL. That's okay if there is no driver for SL.

Thank you very much for your help.

Post by Nico Kadel-Garcia

Post by n00b 101
Hi,
I have installed Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon) on a Dell Latitude
E6520 and would like to get the fingerprint sensor to work. Information
from lsusb command is

Why, exactly, do you want it?
Given the demonstrably poor return-on-investment of finigerprint
security, and the ease of defeating most fingerprint scanners with
bkack&white printouts of copied fingerprints, they're not the
biometric marvel claimed by the vendors of such technology. Are you
trying to simply scan fingerprints for anlysiis, in which case a
Windows VM running under Xen or KVM or VirtualBox should work well? Or
do you actually need it for Linux user authentication?

Post by n00b 101
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications
Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor
I searched a linux driver for BCM5880 for three days and the conclusion is
that BCM5880 Fingerprint Sensor currently has no linux driver. I just want
to know if I am on the right track.
Thanks,
n00b

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Wanting to use something you paid for is completely understandable

You might check out
https://plus.google.com/+LudovicGasc/posts/4c9jkunwo76, which has some
directions for that chipset. No promises: people have apparently been
trying to get a sandalone such device to debug with, for years.

[W K Daniel PUN]

Thank you very much for your direction.

Post by Nico Kadel-Garcia
Wanting to use something you paid for is completely understandable
You might check out
https://plus.google.com/+LudovicGasc/posts/4c9jkunwo76, which has some
directions for that chipset. No promises: people have apparently been
trying to get a sandalone such device to debug with, for years.