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studyinAcookie

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Registered: 2026-03-02

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Fingerprint Sensor on DELL Latitude 5530

Hi, so i am trying to get my fingerprint sensor working on my Latitude 5530.

Device: Dell Latitude 5530 / i5 12gen / Intel Xe Graphics / 8 GB Ram / Broadcom Fingerprint Sensor (ID 0a5c:5843 Broadcom Corp. BCM58200 ControlVault 3 (FingerPrint sensor + Contacted SmartCard))

As far as i know it should be possible. However while trying to enable it i get to the point where i can enroll the fingerprint and get to lets say about 90% finished. Then i will get an error Message and the process stops.

The steps i did take:

    sudo pacman -Syu

    sudo pacman -S libfprint and yay -S libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom

    lsusb ( -> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5843 Broadcom Corp. BCM58200 ControlVault 3 (Fi
    ngerPrint sensor + Contacted SmartCard) )

    edited Pam -> /etc/pam.d/system-login and added -> auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so

5. fprintd-enroll <- passes to about 90% then gets the errormessage -> enroll-unknown-error

6. Tried the same but from kde settings / users / set fingerprint auth -> same behavior as before

7. sudo journalctl -u fprintd -> fprintd[2629]: Device reported an error during
enroll: Enrollment failed : Device status = (11)
and also got this error on random times -> fprintd[2629]: Authorization denied to :1.69 to
call method 'EnrollStart' for device 'Broadcom Sensors': Not Authorized: n
et.reactivated.fprint.device.enroll

I died tried to de install/reinstall all of the packages. Packages used -> libfprint-2-tod1-broadcom and fprintd + magickimage. Also i tried to use fwupd -> fwupdmgr get-devices // fwupdmgr refresh and fwupdmgr get-updates and fwupdmgr update + fast reboot after it was run.

Also i had reset my tpm and disabled/renabled the sensor in my Bios.

Can somebody help me or has a Solution/idea?
Did i something wrong?
I am not a "newbie" but also at the beginning of my linux/Arch career ;D
used linux for a variety of reasons & times but as of yet not as a main OS. So please be nice to me

Ps.: in previous win 11 installation it all worked right out of the box

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 783

Re: Fingerprint Sensor on DELL Latitude 5530

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310042

I also spent some time trying to get it to work, but gave up after realizing it requires some proprietary driver which is compatible only with particular ancient software versions.

Last edited by dimich (2026-03-02 10:44:56)

alex092lap

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Registered: Yesterday

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Re: Fingerprint Sensor on DELL Latitude 5530

Your 0a5c:5843 symptom (enrollment reaches ~90%, then enroll-unknown-error / Device status 11) matches a ControlVault 3 protocol issue I reproduced on a Dell Latitude 7400. The vendor TOD stack can see the reader but misses the host-timestamp interrupt, so the final enrollment stage times out.

I fixed my unit with the source-built shim and reproducible notes here: https://github.com/GrecAndrei/controlva … ey-toolkit

The relevant sequence was: install the matching Broadcom TOD/libfprint packages, disable USB autosuspend for 0a5c:5843, install broadcom-host-event-shim, restart fprintd, then test from the terminal before KDE:

  fprintd-enroll -f right-index-finger $USER
  fprintd-verify -f right-index-finger $USER

In journalctl, the healthy path reports identify status=0 and result=1. The shim handles only the host-timestamp event and does not read or store biometric data. I would not flash the Dell Windows firmware bundle; the included controller is inventory/inspection/sync-clock only because an interrupted or mismatched update can brick the ControlVault.