How do I get the fingerprint reader to work on a Lenovo x230 Tablet?

Question

I followed this post: How to enable finger printer with Thinkpad X230 and tried to install software support for my fingerprint reader. But the software does not find it.

This is the message when i want to setup the Fingerprint Reader:

"ThinkPad-X230-Tablet:~$ fprintd-enroll list_devices failed: No devices available" Do you know ho to fix this issue?

And here is the result from lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bdb:1911 Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 147e:2020 Upek 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 056a:0090 Wacom Co., Ltd TPC90

I hope you can help me. Thanks a lot.

Solution

The answer in that article is for the x220. I have a x230 and fprint does not support yet the upek device used in it. So I guess it's waiting until they include support for it.

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Linked Question:

• How can I use my fingerprint reader?

Comments

[gertvdijk]

Exactly the same device in this question. Thinkwiki.org lists it as unsupported under Linux. It's discussed in this development thread.