Install Fingerprint Driver 138a:0090 on Ubuntu 16.04 (ThinkPad T460s)

Question

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 :)

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

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.

Solution 3

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

Comments

[Csabi Vidó]

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.

[Atomius]

That's exactly my question, I'm new to this community as writer so please excuse some mistakes in posting stuff

[Admin]

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" :(

[Sherif Salem]

this worked with my x1-carbon i7 3rd generation 3448 launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/ubuntu/fingerprint-gui Best luck

[Sean Bone]

@Atomius try out barro32 's answer, it worked for me.

[Sean Bone]

IT WORKS! Tested it on a Lenovo T460p and it works flawlessly so far. Great work man!

[mateuszb]

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?

[Zany_Zachary1]

tried this on my Lenovo p50 laptop. worked good until finger enrolls, output was: list_devices failed: No devices available

[le hien]

I tried on t460s, ubuntu 18.04, output at step 4: list_devices failed: No devices available

[Madhusudhan]

Working for Lenovo P50 (ubuntu 20.04)

[Zany_Zachary1]

@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.

[just_chilling]

I had the same problem with my Lenovo P50 and Ubuntu 20.04 ... fixed it combining the following steps from [here][1] and [here][2]: 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" [1]: github.com/3v1n0/libfprint [2]: askubuntu.com/questions/756706/…