Visiting the local Fry's I found the infamous USB Wireless Security Lock for... if I'm reading the rebate receipt right... free. The price was right, so I picked one up. I had seen some hacks and descriptions of it previously and the concept intrigued me. Basically it's a wireless USB mouse's guts ripped out and put into a keyfob and a USB dongle. It's recognized as a mouse under Linux, but someone wrote a driver for the 2.6 kernel that seems to create a unique device node for it if you bypass the regular hotplug routines. Another person seems to have created a more mainstream driver and is trying to get it into the latest mainstream 2.6 kernel. Don't know if it actually landed there or not...Edit: I was able to get things working quite nicely. The example at www.schau.com worked well - thankfully it was written to be as modular as possible. I wrote my own script to lock/unlock KDE's screensaver, and just had to make a few minor hacks to hid-core.c and wslxsctl.c so the USB kernel module would ignore the vendor id / device id of the key and the userspace app would listen to it.
It doesn't appear to be validating the unique ID sent by the keyfob however - so I'll need to code that part.
I have the same device. I recently found that wslxsctl will gladly read the signal of another FOB and unlock my machine, much to my dismay.
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Please respond to me at vi at sh dot nu. Thanks.
I could never find a good way to generate a unique ID. In general I found the device didn't work as I hoped, but then again neither do bluetooth proximity devices either. It's back to Win+L for me.
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