#! Probook changes 4
Pretty sure I've done some more low-level tinkering that I've not recorded here, but I must've been pretty confident about it. Not so this, my first attempt to get the fingerprint scanner working. I've done a fair bit of reading rather than my usual trial-and-error cut'n'paste command line hackery and here's where I'm at: >sudo apt-get install fprint-demo gets me a way to test functionality before getting too deep into the suggestions here >lsusb shows me that the validity sensor is recognised, but I think I'm missing the drivers * which can be found here , but need converting from rpm to deb >sudo apt-get install alien >sudo alien Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.4-100.00.x86_64.rpm >sudo dpkg -i validity-sensor-setup_4.4-101_amd64.deb Guess I need to go for a reboot now before I can see if it works. ... Nope, still getting Status: No devices found. Could it be that I need the fprint libraries? > sudo apt-get inst...