On 2021/05/21 03:38, suse@a-domani.nl wrote:

Hi all,

We are looking for a fingerprint-protected usb-stick. I noticed: two luxwallet devices, and on their site they clain (...) that those are linux-compatible.

URL: https://www.luxwallet.nl/product-categorie/usb-opslag/vingerafdruk-usb/

However, one must first initialize them, with windows-only software. I've got lot of rubbish and junk here, but no W10.

Do you need USB3, as USB2 is far more compatible. Do you need to install it on W10? The website says W7 is sufficient. As for formatting, it recommends exFAT. You could format it to ExFAT on linux.

I tried wine, but all i got was: "No U: drive", nothing else :-(

--- Have you tried a Win7+USB2 compat device?

On 2021-05-22 05:39, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

On 2021-05-21 20:56:07 L A Walsh wrote:

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|On 2021/05/21 03:38, suse@a-domani.nl wrote: |> Hi all, |> |> We are looking for a fingerprint-protected usb-stick. |> I noticed: two luxwallet devices, and on their site they clain (...) |> that those are linux-compatible. |> |> URL: |> https://www.luxwallet.nl/product-categorie/usb-opslag/vingerafdruk-usb/ |> |> However, one must first initialize them, with windows-only software. |> I've got lot of rubbish and junk here, but no W10. | |---- | Do you need USB3, as USB2 is far more compatible. Do you need to |install it on W10? The website says W7 is sufficient. | |As for formatting, it recommends exFAT. You could format it to ExFAT on |linux. | |> I tried wine, but all i got was: "No U: drive", nothing else :-( | |--- |Have you tried a Win7+USB2 compat device?

"Initialize" isn't necessarily the same as "format". :-)

Is is *NOT* about formatting the storage area. Those devices require the reading and storage of the admin-fingerprint, and subsequently (up to) five different user-fingerprints. So, it is the software, provided in a separate partition, that is microsoft-ony. In their documentation, they state explicitly that Apple-users, need to to the initialisation on a Windows machine. Linux is not mentioned (besides that it is compatiple). Ofcourse i contacted their help-desk, but they are totally not-interested. Which surprised me even more, as it is a pilot for all of my colleges of my ministry of their product.... So, we're not talking about hundred, thousand, or even ten-thousand of their item....

On 2021/05/27 11:26, suse@a-domani.nl wrote:

On 2021-05-22 03:56, L A Walsh wrote:

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--- Have you tried a Win7+USB2 compat device? So, right now, my hope is finding out why "wine" is not enough..

That's fine...I guess what I was poking around about is that when I got a machine that had USB3 builtin, Win7 had problems with it -- Win7 couldn't deal with USB3 without special drivers -- which mean it couldn't recognize any USB drives or devices at all because the hardware was USB3. Peripherals that were USB(1) or USB2 compatible (meaning most of them) could only be read through USB3, which Win7 doesn't understand -- so had to use a PS2 keyboard to boot with until USB3 drivers were installed. Wine is not likely to support the bleeding edge of hardware. and I'm thinking that if the device you want to use provides USB3, then Wine, like Win7 might not have drivers to understand it. I.e. the website you were looking at, if I remember, had some devices that were USB2 compatible, and others that supported USB3. If you use the USB2 compatible devices, I think you'd have a much better chance of it working -- i.e. if Win7SP1 didn't support USB3 I'm _guessing_ that wine might not support USB3 that well either and you might find better compatibility in wine if the device was USB2 compatible. My asking about Win7 availability was a litmus test for a device that that provided a USB2 interface. Anyway -- I'm sure wine will eventually (if it doesn't already) support USB3, but USB3 hasn't been out for as many years as USB2. Sorry I wasn't more clear...but hope that helps. As for formatting, linux can do exfat, so if you can find a USB2 device, I'd think that would have a better chance of being recognized.