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I'm about to config my new fantastic T460s with Ubuntu 16.04 (because of Skylake Kernel issue I've to chose such new version) I tried to use my fingerprint sensor which is 138a:0090 (lusb) Fingerprint Gui doesn't recognize the device which is no wonder, because it is not on the compatibility list of it. Do I've to wait for a driver or is there something I can do about this?

Thanks a lot :)

Atomius
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    16.04 hasn't been released, which makes your question off-topic. If your question was about how to make that particular fingerprint reader work, that would be a different thing. – LiveWireBT Apr 12 '16 at 23:14
  • That's exactly my question, I'm new to this community as writer so please excuse some mistakes in posting stuff – Atomius Apr 13 '16 at 10:57
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    This is not supported yet, track the bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94536 – Treviño May 04 '16 at 15:26
  • I have the same scanner on my new Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga. Also no luck with fprint. I looked at the libfprint repo, but the project was last updated in 2008, and there does not seem to be a "driver request list" :( –  May 29 '16 at 00:50
  • this worked with my x1-carbon i7 3rd generation 3448 https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/ubuntu/fingerprint-gui Best luck – Sherif Salem Jul 15 '17 at 09:38
  • @Atomius try out barro32 's answer, it worked for me. – Sean Bone Jun 21 '18 at 08:54

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I just got the finger print reader (138a:0090) working on my Thinkpad T460p!

  1. Might be a good idea to remove libpam-fprintd if you've alread installed it:
    $sudo apt remove libpam-fprintd
  2. Add the repo for libpam-fprintd which supports 138:0090
    $sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090
  3. Install libpam-fprintd
    $sudo apt install libpam-fprintd
  4. Enroll your index finder using:
    $fprintd-enroll -f "right-index-finger" "$USER"
  5. Enroll all fingers:
    $for finger in {left,right}-{thumb,{index,middle,ring,little}-finger}; do fprintd-enroll -f "$finger" "$USER"; done

See here for more info: https://github.com/3v1n0/libfprint

barro32
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  • IT WORKS! Tested it on a Lenovo T460p and it works flawlessly so far. Great work man! – Sean Bone Jun 21 '18 at 08:43
  • I've followed your instruction, but when trying to enroll finger, I got Enroll result: enroll-unknown-error. I'm trying to get it working on T460p with Ubuntu 18.04 installed. Do you have any ideas how to make it work? – mateuszb Aug 01 '18 at 21:50
  • tried this on my Lenovo p50 laptop. worked good until finger enrolls, output was: list_devices failed: No devices available – Zany_Zachary1 Apr 22 '20 at 15:13
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    I tried on t460s, ubuntu 18.04, output at step 4: list_devices failed: No devices available – le hien May 28 '20 at 04:35
  • Working for Lenovo P50 (ubuntu 20.04) – shantanu Jun 26 '20 at 19:06
  • @shantanu How did you get that to work? Did you type any other commands? It doesn't work on mine, and I have the same model laptop, and same ubuntu version. – Zany_Zachary1 Sep 11 '20 at 18:37
  • I had the same problem with my Lenovo P50 and Ubuntu 20.04 ... fixed it combining the following steps from here and here: 
    sudo apt remove libpam-fprintd
sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090
sudo apt install libfprint-2-tod-vfs0090 
sudo apt install libpam-fprintd

    Enroll your index finder using:

    fprintd-enroll -f "right-index-finger" "$USER"
    – xkcd Dec 21 '20 at 12:52
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I have an x1 carbon 4th gen which has the same fingerprint reader. I looked through the upstram libfprint source, and it doesn't look supported yet, so that's why it's not working. You will likely have to wait till someone creates a driver for it.

Dave Chiluk
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The effort to reverse engineering the protocol has begun and found some success here. Keep an eye on that project for a driver.

conradlee
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For Ubuntu 16.04 or greater:

Follow these steps to install the repo on a Lenovo B series (worked great with my Lenovo E450)

  1. $ sudo apt install libpam-fprintd
  2. $ fprint-enroll
  3. Swipe your finger on Finger scanner
prolificslacker
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Mack
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