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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.

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  • Exactly the same device in [this question](http://askubuntu.com/questions/193528/how-to-enable-fingerprint-device-for-thinkpad-t430s-in-12-04). [Thinkwiki.org](http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrated_Fingerprint_Reader) lists it as unsupported under Linux. It's discussed in [this development thread](http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fprint/2012-November/000311.html). – gertvdijk Dec 19 '12 at 23:55

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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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Zapico
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The fprint library has been updated to support the finger print reader in the x230.

Get it here: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint

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https://askubuntu.com/a/236793/99751 here, i've solved it... sorry for the very late response.

I think It actually works out of the box in newer versions of Ubuntu.

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