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I am a newbie with Ubuntu and Linux, and I just switched from Windows 8. I have installed 12.04 on my new Lenovo Thinkpad x230. It seems everything else works perfectly except the finger printer. I have been using Finger Printer for a long time, and I really rely it on for my Lastpass application. But I don't know how to enable or install the driver of the finger printer. Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks in advance.

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If the answer below doesn't work out, please paste the results of the command "lsusb" so we can see exactly what hardware we are dealing with. Chris – fabricator4 Oct 7 '12 at 7:59

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The X230 has an "upgraded" fingerprint sensor with an onboard co-processor. Its the 147e:2020. As of right now, it appears to be unsupported.

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It is now supported. Please see below. – Mark Mar 21 at 15:16
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I have a X220 Thinkpad and I use fprint and it works well!

Add the PPA to get the latest version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fprint

And install fprint:

sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install libpam-fprint libfprint0 fprint-demo gksu-polkit fprintd

Then run this command to configure pam:

sudo pam-auth-update

Finnaly enroll your finger with:

fprintd-enroll
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The fprint library has been upgraded to support the X230 finger print reader!
Get it here: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint

(Typed on an X230 with working finger print reader!)

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