Ubuntu
libfprint package

  1. Bug #1101647
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1101647

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Pål F. Kristiansen (paalfe) wrote : Re: VFS491 Validity Sensor on HP Probook 4540s

I have the same problem!
I have added the FPrint and Fingerprint GUI repositories and installed as described on https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint.

 OS: Ubuntu 13.04 beta x86_64
 Kernel: 3.8.0-15-generic
 Hardware: HP EliteBook 8470w

 lsusb output:
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:003d Validity Sensors, Inc.

When running both the Fingerprint GUI and the fprint project demo, the device is not recognized.

I found a driver for RHEL6.2-x86_64 and SLED11-SP2-GM-x86_64 on the HP Driver Disks, they can be downloaded from HP.com.

I found newer versions of the driver (including i586) for sle11sp2 on http://www.validityinc.com/uploads/hp/bnb/2012/sle11sp2/

They are rpm packages, I used alien on them to convert them do deb, but the did not work.