Comments on: How To Setup A Fingerprint Sensor In Ubuntu

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:02:02 +0000

I would suggest for the step 4 to be edited, from “fprint_demo” to “gksudo fprint_demo”, as most finger print scanners devices need root privileges to be accessed

By: david_steinlage

david_steinlage — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:44:41 +0000

@Michael:

That’s great news! I haven’t used fprint for a long time though because I never got into the habit of using it after having to put up with a few little glitches here and there. Perhaps things have improved in the last few years.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:31:08 +0000

I want to update my last comment. SUCCESS!

Once I ran fprint as sudo, I was able to enroll my prints. Thanks!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:27:55 +0000

I tried this with Ubuntu 11.04. Fail. It wouldn’t seem to recognize the device. I couldn’t register my prints.

P.S. I know the instructions above were for previous versions of Ubuntu.

By: klaus

klaus — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:27:42 +0000

Hi,

your instructions worked fine for me, thanks! I had to run fprint_demo as root in order to enrol.

By: Gael

Gael — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:05:08 +0000

Hi,

1000 thanks for this tutorial. I works great on a Fujitsu Lifebook E8210, with a AES2501 sensor. Thanks a lot!

By: marco

marco — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:59:00 +0000

me too has the same problem of nana kwame. I’m on a compaq nc6320, ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2501 Fingerprint Sensor, running ubuntu 10.10

By: nana kwame

nana kwame — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:44:58 +0000

the dialogue box for enrolling the fingers has opened but i just can’t enroll. Why?

By: estqwerty

estqwerty — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:12:41 +0000

Works perfectly on my HP DV2750 and ubuntu 9.04. Thank You.

By: david_steinlage

david_steinlage — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:40:47 +0000

@Ward: Sorry man. From a quick google search it looks like the kernel does not yet support that particular sensor:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thinkfinger/+bug/243758

By: Ward

Ward — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:39:25 +0000

I am trying to follow your directions to set up my fingerprint sensor and I am getting a report when trying to run fprint_demo that says that it is not able to open the device. My device is a UPEK TouchChip. Do you have any idea what I can to to get my system to recognize this?