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Has anyone here had success with USB fingerprint scanners? I also found this Microsoft keyboard with fingerprint reader but I don't know if it works with linux.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use the DigitalPersona 4500 with libfprint. Unfortunately, there are multiple revisions of the device with the same model number and only some of them work properly under Linux (different encryption method I believe). As far as I know this is not actually documented anywhere. Googling just shows a bunch of unresolved bug reports of people having no idea why it doesn't work.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Would you mind sharing your lsusb output?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Bus 001 Device 059: ID 05ba:000a DigitalPersona, Inc. Fingerprint Reader

It shows up exactly the same for all the revisions though.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Almost every one of the fingerprint sensors in laptops are not supported by Linux due to proprietary protocols. Never managed to get stuff used by Dell or HP with Linux.

But the Grow R503 can be used over uart, what can be connected to usb with some minor additional parts.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Thankfully the Framework Laptop fingerprint reader works.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's why I'm buying it because they've got actual Linux support (and because of being able to reconfigure it for the task at hand)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I recently got a Dell Latitude 14 2-in-1 with the AMD 8840U, Put on the latest Fedora Kinoite and the fingerprint reader works FYI.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

same with my old Lenovo P53 (for years) -I needed adding some packages though, but that was so long ago...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

same here but I have a Dell Inspiron 7415 2-in-1. Just installed fedora and it worked out of the box.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That sucks so much. I have such a cool vein scanner built in to unlock my laptop jedi style and I can't use it because Fujitsu decided to not add support for Linux 🙄

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

T480s here works on Ubuntu.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

HP Zbook 15" G7 working out of the box but not great detection reliability (might be an unfortunate specimen). Lenovo Thinkpad T580 much better although not working out of the box on LMDE

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